[Pybliographer-devel] Split author field but don't convert individual author names

[Stefan S. <ssc...@ss...>]

Hello,

I'm trying to extract the authors from a BibTeX file with a
Python script and pybliographer 1.2.9. Currently, I use this
script for testing:

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#! /usr/bin/env python

import os
import sys

# important though it _seems_ not be used (does some configuration
#  for module `Open`)
import pybrc

from Pyblio import Open

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print "Usage: %s bibtex_file" % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit()

bibtex_file_name = sys.argv[1]
database = Open.bibopen(bibtex_file_name)

for entry in database.iterator():
    print "===", entry.key.key, "==="
    print "--- Authors (LaTeX) ---"
    print entry.get_latex('author')
    print "--- Authors (parsed and recombined) ---"
    for author in entry.get('author').authors:
        print author
    print
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As it probably should ;-) ,

entry.get_latex('author')

returns the original LaTeX code for the complete author field
while

entry.get('author').authors[0]

returns the first author as an converted string. I would like to
split the author field but get the original LaTeX code for the
_individual_ authors? For example,

author = {M. J. Fabian\'{n}ska and Gra\.{z}yna Bzowska and Aniela Matuszewska}

should be turned into a list (or similar data structure) of
the three entries

M. J. Fabian\'{n}ska
Gra\.{z}yna Bzowska
Aniela Matuszewska

Is there a way to do this?

Background of the question:

- Especially in the above case, the conversion doesn't work; I
  get "Fabiannska, M. J.", "Bzowska, Gra.zyna" and "Matuszewska,
  Aniela" as authors.

- The extracted entries are going to be included in another LaTeX
  file, so it's probably better to let LaTeX handle things like
  \'{n} or \.{z} .

If it's not possible to get the individual authors as unescaped
strings: What's the best way to fix the conversions? Will the
conversion work if the result strings are Unicode? If yes, how
can I use Unicode (unicode) here instead of byte strings (str)?

Stefan