Markdown and DVCS can change the way we collaborate. Even for those pesky journals that require a submission in Word format, you can do the majority of your work in Markdown and then convert to Word via pandoc (and if need be LibreOffice to convert .odt/.docx to .doc). However, a common bibliography is still difficult to pull off. The Makefile and scripts here automagically extract the relevant pandoc references from the specified BibTeX library and create a minimal local BibTeX file that you can include in your repository.

This was inspired by and expands upon the ideas in this blog post.

Requirements:

• make
• Git (Mercurial version available on SourceHut)
• pandoc
• Python (3)
• BibTexParser

You can install pandoc and all the Python tooling via conda:

user@host:~/projectdir$ conda env create -f environment.yml
user@host:~/projectdir$ conda activate futhark
(futhark) user@host:~/projectdir$ conda activate futhark

If you prefer to use your system Python, virtual environments, PyEnv, etc., then the Python packages are available via pip:

user@host:~/projectdir$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

The mdwc is useful for word counts of markdown documents with a YAML header block and is developed here.

My contributions are GPLv2. Previous versions used code with an unclear license, but that has been removed in current versions.

The LaTeX template is a modification of the standard pandoc template and is thus subject to the same restrictions.