[Doxygen-develop] Citations / Bibliography

[David M. <mu...@gm...>]

I would like to implement a citation mechanism for bibliographic
references. I plan to do it by adding:

1. a CITE_SOURCE (string) option that could only be set to "bibtex"
for now, but would allow for later extension;
2. a CITE_STYLE (string) option that could take the values "bynumber"
or "byname"
3. a CITE_BIBFILES (list) option to list the .bib files we want parsed;
4. a \cite command to be used while documenting the code.

The \cite command would behave a little bit like like the \ref
command, but would also list its arguments in a .aux file that would
later be processed by bibtex itself (with a custom .bst file) to
generate the list of references.

I am already doing this for my own purposes with the help of an
external Python script and custom .bst files. I would just need to
reimplement this in Doxygen.

Would that make any sense?

David