citing CTAN packages - neither TooBib nor Zotero could come up with more than a title :)

David Carlisle d.p.carlisle at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 08:40:32 CET 2022


On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 00:30, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> I'm putting together another set of notes and wanted
> to credit mol2chemfig,
>
> https://ctan.org/pkg/mol2chemfig
>
> for some of the illustrations. Both TooBib and Zotero
> just returned basically a title but
> yet there is authoer and version and date
> info there and in the PDF documentation file.
> Is there no interest in making it easy to
> credit this work by making this machine readable?
>


JSON:

https://ctan.org/json/2.0/pkg/mol2chemfig

XML:

https://ctan.org/xml/2.0/pkg/mol2chemfig

are probably what you are looking for?

David






> I have found that besides academic
> publishers even popular news sites and many
> commercial sites make it possible to
> come up with decent bibtex entries
> using at least TooBib and sometimes Zotero.
>
> Isn't this a desirable feature for web
> pages and manuals or documentation or
> just about any PDF file?
>
> I have proposed my 20 or so line solution
> for TeX documents and I would
> imagine most web site templates include
> stuff like that lets Zotero and
> TooBib work.
>
> What is the real tradeoff here? Just
> no demand? It just seems like an easy feature
> to add and would maybe encourage others
> to make their work easy to credit
> or condemn :)
>
> Just my crusade de jour fwiw.
>
>
>
>
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