LaTeXM...BibTeX(3pm)

💅 NAME 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the LaTeXM...BibTeX(3pm) manual page — today’s main character is "LaTeXML::Pre::BibTeX", and it implements a BibTeX parser for LaTeXML. periodt ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

"LaTeXML::Pre::BibTeX" is your low-level parser bestie for BibTeX database files. It parses and stores a LaTeXML::Pre::BibTeX::Entry for each entry into the current STATE. BibTeX "string" macros are substituted into the field values, but no other processing of the data is done — that’s the vibe check. 🫶

if you wanna know how further processing is carried out (and how it can be customized), go look at "LaTeXML::Package::BibTeX.pool.ltxml" — it’s giving “the real processing happens over there” energy. 👑

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🎀 Creating a BibTeX 🎀

• my $bib = LaTeXML::Pre::BibTeX->newFromFile($bibname);

Creates a LaTeXML::Pre::BibTeX object representing a bibliography from a BibTeX database file. file-based slay 🗂️✨

• my $bib = LaTeXML::Pre::BibTeX->newFromString($string);

Creates a LaTeXML::Pre::BibTeX object representing a bibliography from a string containing the BibTeX data. string-based slay 🧵💖

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✨ Methods ✨

• $string = $bib->toTeX;

Returns a string containing the TeX code to be digested by a LaTeXML object to process the bibliography. The string contains all @PREAMBLE data and invocations of \\ProcessBibTeXEntry{$key} for each bibliographic entry. The $key can be used to lookup the data from $STATE as LookupValue('BIBITEM@'.$key). See BibTeX.pool for how the processing is carried out. it’s literally handing off the TeX glow-up 🔥

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🦋 BibEntry objects 🦋

This is the representation of a BibTeX entry. main character entry energy 💅

• $type = $bibentry->getType;

Returns a string naming the entry type of the entry. No aliasing is done here — that’s the whole note, bestie. 🚫🔁

• $key = $bibentry->getKey;

Returns the bibliographic key for the entry. the entry’s little name tag 🏷️✨

• @fields = $bibentry->getFields;

Returns a list of pairs [$name,$value] representing all fields, in the order defined, for the entry. Both the $name and $value are strings. Field names may be repeated, if they are in the bibliography. yes, duplicates can happen — it’s not a bug, it’s the data 💀

• $value = $bibentry->getField($name);

Returns the value (or undef) associated with the given field name. If the field was repeated in the bibliography, only the last one is returned. last-one-wins behavior, no cap 🧢

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bruce Miller <bruce.miller@nist.gov> — iconic authorship moment 🌟

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Public domain software, produced as part of work done by the United States Government & not subject to copyright in the US.

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mwah 💋 — this page is from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-11-16, and it’s the LaTeXM...BibTeX(3pm) manual. bye bestie, go parse some bibliographies 💖✨