jbTeX3

jbTeX3 is a spin off of jbTeX2 after an intensive use of LaTeX. At the time of the writing, academia heavely uses LaTeX for formatting papers, but LaTeX has the following issues:

• Different conferences have different requirements for defining Author, Title, Abstract and Keyword information.

  If I want to resubmit the same paper to different conferences, I have to do some major rewriting pre-processing. This goal can be achieved by using XML as a meta-markup language and using XQuery/Antlr4 for matching XML information and rewriting into tex sources.

• As a consequence of the former remark, I want to generate plain text representation in a semantic-aware form.

• We can use the FileSystem to dictate the file-inclusion order for the different article's parts, without using \input or \include directives.

• Sometimes (e.g., books or thesis) bibliographies became huge, and you may have duplicate references or missing ones. You want to remove the first and manually impute the second ones.

Installing dependencies

This project uses Oracle's XQuery interpreter. For this reason, we advise each user to register himself to Oracle, and then run the install-dependencies.sh script to download and maven-install the required libraries. The complete installation process is provided by either linux-install.sh or macos-install.sh scripts. After running such scripts, the jbTeX3.sh can be run to use the program from command line.

TODO Add a GUI Wizard to guide in the rewriting process.

Paper structure

Each paper is defined by a paper folder, where the paper is written in XML format, and information.xml containing the title, author and conference/journal information. An example of the expected folder structure is provided by the root folder of this project.

Stylesheets

Each folder x in queries containing a main.txt is considered as a stylesheet. Each stylesheet x has a main entrypoint (x/main.txt) which composes the output of the different XQueries and different outputs of the XML documents.

• acm: A possible configuration for ACM Conferences.
• ieee_jr: Main configuration for the IEEE Journal.
• plaintext: Converting the paper into human-readable plaintext.
• springer: A springer journal.

These options must be specified as a --style parameter. More styles will come in the following releases.