Citezen

Citezen is a suite of tools for parsing, validating, sorting, and displaying BibTeX databases, integrated with Pier. It aims at replacing and extending BibTeX, in Smalltalk; ideally, features would be similar to BibTeX, CrossTeX, or CSL.

Status

There are several instances of Citezen in use already, to display publication lists in Pier websites, for instance RMoD, Moose, or Tudor Gîrba’s websites.

At the moment, the foundations are here but we still need to put it all together so that it becomes a really nice tool in practice; here’s what currently exists:

• parsers for .bib and .aux formats,
• an object model of BibTeX data,
• a system of fill-in phrases to specify how an entry should be formatted independantly of the final format,
• formatters that complete a phrase with data from a BibTeX entry to generate various concrete output formats: plain text, HTML, .bbl file for use with LaTeX, .bib file to pretty-print/sort/subset bibliographies.

Loading Citezen

With Metacello:

Gofer new squeaksource: 'Citezen';
     package: 'ConfigurationOfCitezen';
     load.
(ConfigurationOfCitezen project latestVersion: #development) load

Citezen-Pier

This is a package to support ad hoc and fixed queries on a local BibTeX file, and to integrate them into a website powered by the Pier content management system. To try it out, first create a Bib File page, and configure it to point to a local BibTeX file. You can then also create embeddable components of type Fixed Query and Query Box which should be configured to point to a pre-installed Bib File page.