[biblio] biblatex style to output plain text (a la bibtex)?

[Oleg Domanov]

This might be of interest:
https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex2bibitem
https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/292

This is a workaround, though.


Le jeu. 15 sept. 2022 à 03:47, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> a écrit :

> Is there a biblatex style which outputs plain text, more or less like
> the .bbl file that BibTeX generates? Or, equivalently, more or less the
> result of typesetting the biblatex .bbl? That is, still using UTF-8 or
> TeX control sequences for accents, etc., but with all the biblatex
> markup commands removed.
>
> For example, for this tiny bib entry:
>
>   @Misc{Miller:latexml:base,
>     author = {Bruce Miller},
>     title  = {{\textsl{\texttt{LaTeXML}}}: A {\LaTeX} to {XML} Converter},
>     url    = {https://mast.nist.gov/LaTeXML/},
>   }
>
> What I need is something like what BibTeX outputs, which is simply the
> commands to typeset the entry:
>
>   \bibitem{Miller:latexml:base}
>   B.~Miller.
>   \newblock {\textsl{\texttt{LaTeXML}}}: A {\LaTeX} to {XML} converter.
>   \newblock \url{https://mast.nist.gov/LaTeXML/}
>
> What BibLaTeX outputs, with
>
> \usepackage[giveninits=true,style=numeric,backend=bibtex,isbn=false]{biblatex}
> is below. Not something that is parsable by anything except biblatex.
> Hence my question.
>
> I need this as the basis for the citation information that I upload to
> Crossref, which needs to be (basically) UTF-8 plain text.  It's not
> crucial, since it is possible to copy/paste the typeset-by-biblatex
> output as plain text for Crossref. But, it would be nice to do better.
>
> Thanks for any info. --thanks, karl.
>
>   \entry{Miller:latexml:online}{online}{}
>     \name{author}{1}{}{%
>       {{hash=MB}{%
>          family={Miller},
>          familyi={M\bibinitperiod},
>          given={Bruce},
>          giveni={B\bibinitperiod},
>       }}%
>     }
>     \strng{namehash}{MB1}
>     \strng{fullhash}{MB1}
>     \field{label}{LTX}
>     \field{labelnamesource}{author}
>     \field{labeltitlesource}{title}
>     \field{sortinit}{M}
>     \field{sortinithash}{M}
>     \field{title}{{\textsl{\texttt{LaTeXML}}}: A {\LaTeX} to {XML}
> Converter}
>     \verb{url}
>     \verb https://mast.nist.gov/LaTeXML/
>     \endverb
>     \field{urlday}{12}
>     \field{urlmonth}{03}
>     \field{urlyear}{2021}
>   \endentry
>
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