The actual utilities

bib2pl f1.bib f2.bib ...

Converts one or more bib files into one .pl file (file generated is f1_f2_.._auto.pl). Caveats/Bugs:

• Some syntactically incorrect entries that bibtex can read (and that therefore may go undeteced) are not supported (e.g., commas after the body of the last item in an entry).
• @string is not supported yet.

mergesortbibs f1.bib f2.bib ...

Merges and sorts one or more bib files into a single .bib. file (file generated is f1_f2_.._auto.bib). Caveats/Bugs: same as above.

pl2bib bibfile.pl

Converts one .pl file (containing a paper database) into a .bib file.

pl2pubsbyyear SName PName bibfile.pl people_urls.pl psdir psdirurl

Generates a list of the publications contained in file bibfile.pl in which SName is an author (if - is used then all papers in bibfile.pl are selected). The list is produced in latex (in English), classified by publication type and YEAR of publication.

• PName is a (normally longer) name of SName, which will be used to produce the section titles.
• people_urls.pl must contain a predicate url_db(Name,URL,email) (all arguments are strings) and is used to obtain urls for authors, etc. For example:

          url_db(""M.Hermenegildo"",
                 ""http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~herme"",
                 ""herme@fi.upm.es"").
  

• psdir is a directory (which should be accessible via WWW) where postscript (.ps / .ps.gz) versions of the papers are stored. These .ps files must be named keyword.ps, where keyword is the keyword field in the bib entry.
• psdirurl is the url address of that directory.

(An example application is examples/clippubsbyyear.)

pl2pubsbytopic SName PName bibfile.pl people_urls.pl topics.pl psdir psdirurl

Generates a list of the publications contained in file bibfile.pl in which SName is an author (if - is used then all papers bibfile.pl are selected). The list is produced in latex (in English), classified by publication type and TOPIC of the paper.

• PName, people_urls.pl, psdir, and psdirurl are as above.
• topics.pl, the topics database, must contain a predicate topic(TopicKeyword,TopicText) (first argument is an atom, the second a string) which relates topic keywords with some text describing the topic. The former is what is included in the entries in bibfile.bib database, in the butopics field. The latter is the text used in section headings in the generated document. For example:

          topic(anal,""Program Analysis"").
  

(An example application is examples/clippubsbytopic. Note for CLIP group: the CLIP topics database is in /home/clip/PlDbs/clip_topics.pl.)

pl2engcur bibfile.pl Name people_urls.pl

Generates the list of publications for person Name, in latex (English), classified by type of publication. people_urls.pl is as above. (An example application is examples/engcur.)

incversion file

Simple script which takes as argument a filename which containing an integer followed by a period. Increments the integer by one in the file and returns the new value in stdout. This may be useful for for example for updating the version numbers of automatically generated documents. (An example application is examples/clippubsbyyear.)

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