embedding self-describing bibtex in dvi or pdf

Tue Oct 29 19:07:27 CET 2019

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:23:14PM +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:10:16PM +0100, Enrico Schumann wrote:
> > 
> > Quoting Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com>:
> > 
> > > Do these or other formats support this ?
> > > For the DVI I can make a special that could be discovered with a dvi
> > > interpretter or just a dumb file reader if it is unique enough. PDF I know
> > > has a lot of flexibility but not sure what exists for this or if there
> > > already is a well known generally accepted approach to put in
> > > machine readable citation info.
> > > 
> > > I could imagine tex macro for self info fields but not sure I have ever
> > > seen one.  pdfinfo comes close for pdf, I guess if you could add arbitrary
> > > key-value pairs this would work . What existing tex would let me insert stuff
> > > here to read later for bibtex extraction?
> > > 
> > > pdfinfo cases.pdf
> > > Title:
> > > Subject:
> > > Keywords:
> > > Author:
> > > Creator:        LaTeX with hyperref package
> > > Producer:       pdfTeX-1.40.16
> > > CreationDate:   Tue Oct 29 04:51:45 2019
> > > ModDate:        Tue Oct 29 04:51:45 2019
> > > Tagged:         no
> > > UserProperties: no
> > > Suspects:       no
> > > Form:           none
> > > JavaScript:     no
> > > Pages:          738
> > > Encrypted:      no
> > > Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
> > > Page rot:       0
> > > File size:      10873604 bytes
> > > Optimized:      no
> > > PDF version:    1.5
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > 
> > > mike marchywka
> > > 306 charles cox
> > > canton GA 30115
> > > USA, Earth
> > > marchywka at hotmail.com
> > > 404-788-1216
> > > ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-455X
> > 
> > Package 'hyperref' allows you to write user-defined key-value pairs
> > into a PDF:
> > 
> >   \documentclass{article}
> >   \usepackage{hyperref}
> >   \hypersetup{
> >     pdfinfo={
> >       x-bib-author  = {A. Writer},
> >       x-bib-journal = {Test}
> >     }
> >   }
> >   \begin{document}
> >   Test
> >   \end{document}
> > 
> > I am not sure, however, if pdfinfo can extract them.
> 
> I thought there may be a verbose option or something to pickup everything
> but did not find it, although see below the info is in the file if I can
> parse it without a lot of effort ( I put "od" into a script for ease of use ), 
> 
> pdfinfo schumann.pdf
> Title:          
> Subject:        
> Keywords:       
> Author:         
> Creator:        LaTeX with hyperref package
> Producer:       pdfTeX-1.40.16
> CreationDate:   Tue Oct 29 08:18:25 2019
> ModDate:        Tue Oct 29 08:18:25 2019
> Tagged:         no
> UserProperties: no
> Suspects:       no
> Form:           none
> JavaScript:     no
> Pages:          1
> Encrypted:      no
> Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
> Page rot:       0
> File size:      10903 bytes
> Optimized:      no
> PDF version:    1.5
> marchywka at happy:/home/documents/latex/proj/allbib$ cat schumann.tex
>  \documentclass{article}
>  \usepackage{hyperref}
>   \hypersetup{
>    pdfinfo={
>      x-bib-author  = {A. Writer},
>       x-bib-journal = {Test}
> 	x-bib-buy-url = {https://buyexpensivejunk}
>     }
>  }
> \begin{document}
> test
> \end{document}
> 
> marchywka at happy:/home/documents/latex/proj/allbib$ myod schumann.pdf | grep -B 3 -A 3 bib
> 002530 28 70 64 66 54 65 58 2d 31 2e 34 30 2e 31 36 29  >(pdfTeX-1.40.16)<
> 002540 2f 4b 65 79 77 6f 72 64 73 28 29 2f 78 2d 62 69  >/Keywords()/x-bi<
> 002550 62 2d 61 75 74 68 6f 72 28 41 2e 20 57 72 69 74  >b-author(A. Writ<
> 002560 65 72 29 2f 78 2d 62 69 62 2d 6a 6f 75 72 6e 61  >er)/x-bib-journa<
> 002570 6c 28 54 65 73 74 20 78 2d 62 69 62 2d 62 75 79  >l(Test x-bib-buy<
> 002580 2d 75 72 6c 3d 68 74 74 70 73 3a 2f 2f 62 75 79  >-url=https://buy<
> 002590 65 78 70 65 6e 73 69 76 65 6a 75 6e 6b 29 0a 2f  >expensivejunk)./<
> 0025a0 43 72 65 61 74 69 6f 6e 44 61 74 65 20 28 44 3a  >CreationDate (D:<
> marchywka at happy:/home/documents/latex/proj/allbib$ 
> 
> 
exiftool works although  I missed a comma above, 
Thanks.
exiftool -struct -f -x -ee schumann.pdf
ExifTool Version Number         : 10.10
File Name                       : schumann.pdf
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 11 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2019:10:29 08:18:25-04:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2019:10:29 08:18:35-04:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2019:10:29 08:18:25-04:00
File Permissions                : rw-rw-r--
File Type                       : PDF
File Type Extension             : pdf
MIME Type                       : application/pdf
PDF Version                     : 1.5
Linearized                      : No
Page Count                      : 1
Page Mode                       : UseOutlines
Author                          : 
Title                           : 
Subject                         : 
Creator                         : LaTeX with hyperref package
Producer                        : pdfTeX-1.40.16
X-bib-author                    : A. Writer
X-bib-journal                   : Test x-bib-buy-url=https://buyexpensivejunk
Create Date                     : 2019:10:29 08:18:25-04:00
Modify Date                     : 2019:10:29 08:18:25-04:00
Trapped                         : False
PTEX Fullbanner                 : This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) kpathsea version 6.2.1
marchywka at happy:/home/documents/latex/proj/allbib$ 


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> 
> mike marchywka
> 306 charles cox
> canton GA 30115
> USA, Earth 
> marchywka at hotmail.com
> 404-788-1216
> ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-455X
> 

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mike marchywka
306 charles cox
canton GA 30115
USA, Earth 
marchywka at hotmail.com
404-788-1216
ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-455X