# usage:
def usage ():
- print 'usage: %s [-s style] [-o <outfile>] BIBFILES...'
+ print 'usage: bib2texi.py [-s style] [-o <outfile>] [-q] BIBFILES...'
+ print '-q suppresses most output'
-(options, files) = getopt.getopt (sys.argv[1:], 's:o:', [])
+(options, files) = getopt.getopt (sys.argv[1:], 's:o:hq', [])
output = 'bib.itexi'
style = 'long'
+show_output = True
for (o,a) in options:
if o == '-h' or o == '--help':
style = a
elif o == '-o' or o == '--output':
output = a
+ elif o == '-q':
+ show_output = False
else:
raise Exception ('unknown option: %s' % o)
-
-if style not in ['alpha','index','long','longp','long-pario','short','short-pario','split']:
- sys.stderr.write ("Unknown style \`%s'\n" % style)
-
if not files:
usage ()
sys.exit (2)
+marker = """@c This file was autogenerated
+@c from: %s
+@c by: %s
+
+""" % (", ".join(files), sys.argv[0])
def strip_extension (f, ext):
(p, e) = os.path.splitext (f)
tmpfile = tempfile.mkstemp ('bib2texi')[1]
+#This writes a .aux file to the temporary directory.
+#The .aux file contains the commands for bibtex
+#PEH changed the bibstyle to allow a single template file in the parent directory
+#The template filename is texi-*.bst, where * defaults to 'long' but can be a parameter
open (tmpfile + '.aux', 'w').write (r'''
\relax
\citation{*}
-\bibstyle{texi-%(style)s}
+\bibstyle{%(style)s}
\bibdata{%(files)s}''' % vars ())
tmpdir = tempfile.gettempdir ()
-cmd = "TEXMFOUTPUT=%s bibtex %s" % (tmpdir, tmpfile)
+if (show_output):
+ quiet_flag = ''
+else:
+ quiet_flag = ' -terse '
+
+#The command line to invoke bibtex
+cmd = "TEXMFOUTPUT=%s bibtex %s %s" % (tmpdir, quiet_flag, tmpfile)
-sys.stdout.write ("Invoking `%s'\n" % cmd)
+if (show_output):
+ sys.stdout.write ("Running bibtex on %s\n" % files)
+ sys.stdout.write (cmd)
+#And invoke it
stat = os.system (cmd)
if stat <> 0:
- sys.exit(1)
-
+ sys.stderr.write ("Bibtex exited with nonzero exit status!")
+ sys.exit (1)
#TODO: do tex -> itexi on output
-
+# Following lines copy tmpfile.bbl to the desired output file
bbl = open (tmpfile + '.bbl').read ()
-open (output, 'w').write (bbl)
+if bbl.strip () == '':
+ sys.stderr.write ("Bibtex generated an empty file!")
+ sys.exit (1)
+fout = open (output, 'w')
+fout.write (marker)
+fout.write (bbl)
+fout.close ()
def cleanup (tmpfile):
for a in ['aux','bbl', 'blg']:
os.unlink (tmpfile + '.' + a)
+
cleanup (tmpfile)
+#Following line added by PEH - script was leaving a dangling temporary file with no extension
+os.unlink (tmpfile)