R. J. Mathar

Yes, I understand. The ticket can be closed as resolved. An example of that kind would be nice in the manual..)

histeps and two y-axes

My error was indeed from calling the package distributed with openSUSE Leap 15.0. Package xfig openSUSE-15.0 OSS 3.2.7a-lp150.1.1 (14.2 MiB) and transfig openSUSE-Leap-15.0-Update 3.2.6a-lp150.3.3.2 (1.3MiB). See also https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/xfig-does-not-recognize-paper-size-a4-when-exporting-to-eps-format-4175656719 . According to the zypper package manager both packages are up-to-date on my computer. I guess this solves the problem.

Unknown paper size A4

The format of the time in the data file must be specified in the style of set xdata time set timefmt "%d%m%y" set format x "%B" # "%b" seems to be broken plot "datafile" using 1:4 notitle

It turns out that adsout.c in bibutils 6.6 does not deal well with cases where the initial of the first author is an accented character of the extended code pages of UTF-8. One would like to convert that character to a plain uppercase ASCII letter before adding this in ads2xml. A patch of that kind for adsout.c is attached.

Also: here are refinements that would be appropriate for xml2ads in the function append_data() in lib/adsout.c: (i) move the append_Rtag() call ahead in front of the first append_people() call. (ii) In the DOI output, do not just say "%Y" but "%Y DOI:" for the initial string in the output line. (iii) make the call of append_urls() a comment.

It would be nice if ris2xml could scan lines of the format DO - https://doi.org/xx.xxxx/yyyyy.. that appear as doi specifications of ris files of ELSEVIER. Without the 'https://doi.org/' ris2xml renders the input well and puts the xx.xxxx/yyyyy into the XML files.