reStructuredText export

[Former user]

I'd like to see reStructuredText as an export option. Do you think pybtex could be used as bibliographic tool for Docutils (http://docutils.sf.net~)?

[Matthias Troffaes]

I'm working on a bibtex sphinx extension and I've created a doctree backend for pybtex:

https://bitbucket.org/mtroffaes/sphinx-contrib/src/tip/bibtex/sphinxcontrib/bibtex/backends/doctree.py

I had to patch the pybtex source to allow backends with non-string rendering. Will try to attach it...

[Matthias Troffaes]

Seems like I can't attach a file. Anyway, the patch is trivial, let me paste it here.

modified file 'pybtex/backends/__init__.py'

--- pybtex/backends/__init__.py 2011-03-03 14:15:55 +0000 +++ pybtex/backends/__init__.py 2011-03-24 15:31:24 +0000 @​@​ -48,6 +48,10 @​@​

raise NotImplementedError

+ def render_sequence(self, text): + """Render a sequence of rendered text objects.""" + return "".join(text) + def write_entry(self, label, key, text): raise NotImplementedError

modified file 'pybtex/richtext.py'

--- pybtex/richtext.py 2011-01-06 18:14:02 +0000 +++ pybtex/richtext.py 2011-03-24 15:30:30 +0000 @​@​ -125,7 +125,7 @​@​ text.append(backend.format_text(item)) else: text.append(item.render(backend)) - return "".join(text) + return backend.render_sequence(text)

def enumerate(self): for n, child in enumerate(self):

[Matthias Troffaes]

Doctree fork now maintained here:

https://code.launchpad.net/~matthias-troffaes/+junk/pybtex

[Andrey Golovizin]

Ticket moved from /p/pybtex/feature-requests/4/

Can't be converted:

• _milestone:
• _priority: 5

[Andrey Golovizin]

• status: open --> closed-fixed
• Version: --> trunk

[Andrey Golovizin]

Guess it's time to close this bug. :) We have https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-bibtex now.

[Luis Belmar-Letelier]

How with sphinxcontrib-bibtex can we do the equivalent of

pybtex-format Rnews.bib out.rst

to get restructured text citation in out.rst ?

[Andrey Golovizin]

You cannot directly export the bibliography to .rst, but you can use sphinxcontrib-bibtex to include bibliographies into .rst documents.

[Luis Belmar-Letelier]

ok but here is not cli in sphinxcontrib-bibtex ;(

I'm not using sphinx, so does that mean that I have to use the API and create my own script ?