From eabf1f6d74dac497ce31e3e2f441cfa25e9f74f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Douglas B. Rumbaugh" <doug@douglasrumbaugh.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2026 12:02:41 -0400
Subject: Initial implementation (only a few years later!)

This is pure Claude. I'd written out the plan for
this suite of scripts eons ago, but never found the
time to actual do it. Remembered it this morning,
pointed Claude at the README, and had something
that appears to work in minutes.

caveat emptor: the design is mine, but the code is
purely LLM generated at this point.
---
 lib/ref2bib.awk | 107 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 107 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lib/ref2bib.awk

(limited to 'lib/ref2bib.awk')

diff --git a/lib/ref2bib.awk b/lib/ref2bib.awk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..422fdd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/ref2bib.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+# ref2bib.awk - convert refer records to bibtex entries
+#
+# Standalone (does not use bib-parse.awk). Records are separated by
+# blank lines. Output keys are FIXME; pipe through bib-key.
+
+BEGIN {
+  RS = ""
+  FS = "\n"
+}
+
+function r_trim(t) {
+  sub(/^[ \t\r]+/, "", t)
+  sub(/[ \t\r]+$/, "", t)
+  return t
+}
+
+function r_emit(name, v) {
+  if (v != "")
+    printf "  %s = {%s},\n", name, v
+}
+
+{
+  split("", val)
+  na = 0
+  ne = 0
+  split("", A)
+  split("", E)
+  lasttag = ""
+  for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {
+    line = $i
+    if (substr(line, 1, 1) == "%") {
+      tag = substr(line, 2, 1)
+      v = r_trim(substr(line, 3))
+      if (tag == "A")
+        A[++na] = v
+      else if (tag == "E")
+        E[++ne] = v
+      else
+        val[tag] = v
+      lasttag = tag
+    } else if (lasttag == "A")
+      A[na] = A[na] " " r_trim(line)
+    else if (lasttag == "E")
+      E[ne] = E[ne] " " r_trim(line)
+    else if (lasttag != "")
+      val[lasttag] = val[lasttag] " " r_trim(line)
+  }
+  if (na == 0 && ne == 0 && !("T" in val))
+    next
+
+  # guess an entry type from the fields present
+  if ("J" in val)
+    type = "article"
+  else if ("B" in val)
+    type = (val["B"] ~ /[Pp]roceedings|[Cc]onference|[Ss]ymposium|[Ww]orkshop/) \
+        ? "inproceedings" : "incollection"
+  else if ("R" in val)
+    type = "techreport"
+  else if ("I" in val)
+    type = "book"
+  else
+    type = "misc"
+
+  if (out_n++)
+    print ""
+  printf "@%s{FIXME,\n", type
+
+  authors = ""
+  for (i = 1; i <= na; i++)
+    authors = (i == 1) ? A[i] : authors " and " A[i]
+  r_emit("author", authors)
+  editors = ""
+  for (i = 1; i <= ne; i++)
+    editors = (i == 1) ? E[i] : editors " and " E[i]
+  r_emit("editor", editors)
+
+  r_emit("title", val["T"])
+  r_emit("journal", val["J"])
+  r_emit("booktitle", val["B"])
+
+  d = val["D"]
+  if (match(d, /[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/)) {
+    r_emit("year", substr(d, RSTART, 4))
+    m = r_trim(substr(d, 1, RSTART - 1) substr(d, RSTART + 4))
+    if (m != "")
+      r_emit("month", m)
+  } else
+    r_emit("year", d)
+
+  r_emit("volume", val["V"])
+  r_emit("number", val["N"])
+  p = val["P"]
+  gsub(/-+/, "--", p)
+  r_emit("pages", p)
+  r_emit(type == "techreport" ? "institution" : "publisher", val["I"])
+  r_emit("address", val["C"])
+  if ("R" in val) {
+    if ("N" in val)
+      r_emit("note", val["R"])
+    else
+      r_emit("number", val["R"])
+  }
+  r_emit("keywords", val["K"])
+  r_emit("abstract", val["X"])
+  r_emit("note", val["O"])
+  print "}"
+}
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