bibliographies with recfiles

data/recfiles.md

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 - [Extended example](recfiles/extended.md)
 - [Playing with board games data](recfiles/Board_Games.md)
 - [Playing with IP addresses](recfiles/IP_ASN.md)
+- [Manage LaTeX Bibliographies](recfiles/bibliography.md)
 - [Fixes](recfiles/recfixes.md)
 
 # Resources

data/recfiles/bibliography.md

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+---
+title: "Recfile Bibliography for TeX"
+tags: [ "data", "database", "recfiles", "tex" ]
+requires: [ "Recfiles", "TeX", "Makefile" ]
+---
+
+Store your bibliography in a `recfile` database, then extract any part with `make`.
+
+For example, you could store books like this in `bibliography.rec`:
+
+```recfile
+%rec: book
+%key: slug
+
+slug: thinkingexperience
+author: H. H. Price
+title: Thinking and Experience
+year: 1953
+publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
+
+slug: inventingrightwrong
+author: John Leslie Mackie
+title: Inventing Right and Wrong
+year: 1997
+publisher: Penguin Books, England
+
+```
+
+Run `make book` to extract `book.bib`, ready for LaTeX to use:
+
+```bib
+@book{thinkingexperience,
+   author = {H. H. Price},
+   title = {Thinking and Experience},
+   year = {1953},
+   publisher = {Harvard University Press, Cambridge},
+}
+
+@book{inventingrightwrong,
+   author = {John Leslie Mackie},
+   title = {Inventing Right and Wrong},
+   year = {1997},
+   publisher = {Penguin Books, England},
+}
+```
+
+The `makefile` syntax is just a few lines (though admittedly employs some garbled shell-crud):
+
+```make
+bibs != grep -Po '%rec: \K.*' bibliography.rec
+bibfiles = $(patsubst %, %.bib, $(bibs))
+
+$(bibfiles): %.bib: bibliography.rec
+	recsel $< -t $(basename $@) |\
+		sed 's/slug: \(.*\)/@$(basename $@){\1,/g' |\
+		sed 's/^\(\b.*\b\): \(.*\)/   \1 = {\2},/gI' |\
+		sed 's/^$$/}\n/g' > $@
+		echo '}' >> $@
+```
+
+Here's a longer `bibliography.rec` file, which can also produce `article.bib`:
+
+```recfile
+%rec: book
+%key: slug
+%type: year int
+%constraint: year > -2000
+%sort: year month
+
+slug: thinkingexperience
+author: H. H. Price
+title: Thinking and Experience
+year: 1953
+publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
+
+slug: inventingrightwrong
+author: John Leslie Mackie
+title: Inventing Right and Wrong
+year: 1997
+publisher: Penguin Books, England
+
+slug: metaphysicscontemporaryintro
+author: Michael J. Loux
+title: Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
+year: 1998
+publisher: Routledge, London
+
+slug: pluralityworlds
+author: David Lewis
+title: On the Plurality of Worlds
+publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Oxford
+year: 2001
+
+%rec: article
+%key: slug
+%sort: year month
+
+slug: genuinerealisttheory
+author: John Divers
+title: A Genuine Realist Theory of Advanced Modalizing
+year: 1999
+pages: 217–240
+month: april
+journaltitle: Mind
+uri: https://academic.oup.com/mind/article-abstract/108/430/217/975258?redirectedFrom=fulltext
+volume: 108
+publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
+
+slug: twokindsmentalrealism
+author: Tam\'{a}s Demeter
+title: Two Kinds of Mental Realism
+year: 2009
+pages: 40:59-71
+uri: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tamas_Demeter2/publication/41554923_Two_Kinds_of_Mental_Realism/links/0deec53247f5a4ae21000000.pdf
+month: august
+journaltitle: Journal for General Philosophy of Science
+volume: 30
+publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
+
+```
+