How to edit the BibTeX .bst FUNCTION {format.names}? - latex

After trying several .bst files I am still mostly satisfied with the layout of the ChicagoReedWeb.bst file. However, I don't like the handling of entries by the same author, eg:
If have looked at the ChicagoReedWeb.bst file but only understand some of the basics.
So how can I edit the code of the ChicagoReedWeb.bst file in such a way that it will print the author's full reference instead of the "--------" ?

OK, this is well outside my previous experience with BibTeX, but looking at the file, I get the impression that the name.or.dash section is replacing the name with a dash if it's the same as the previous one. I suggest trying replacing this code:
FUNCTION {name.or.dash}
{ 's :=
oldname empty$
{ s 'oldname := s }
{ s oldname =
{ "\rule[.6ex]{3em}{.05ex}"}
{ s 'oldname := s }
if$
}
if$
}
with this:
FUNCTION {name.or.dash}
{
}
If my understanding of the syntax is correct, this should simply remove the comparison and optional change, and leave the name as you want it.
A slightly tidier approach might be to take out the calls to name.or.dash in the places which you don't want them. That will give you more flexibility about whether you want a dash in place of, for example, a repeated book name.

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MathQuill and set operators

When using MathQuill one needs to type \nsub to get the ⊈ symbol. The latex you get back is \not\subset, which is fine.
But when you try to set back the same \not\subset expression to the MathQuill field, you get a different result : \neg\subset, which translates to a different rendering.
The problem can be reproduced directly on the MathQuill page (http://mathquill.com/) using the browser console :
Any ideas on how to handle or work around this ?
MathQuill will accept \nsub while typing, but also \notsubset, which got me to a simple find-and-replace solution, which does not require any other code change.
Not the best, but it works; the only downside is that the list of text replacements is fixed; the set operators are the one I found; could be more.
// special math pre-processing
var mathFix = {
"\\not\\subset" : "\\notsubset",
"\\not\\supset" : "\\notsupset"
}
var mathTextFixed = '<your latex here>';
Object.keys(mathFix).forEach(function(t1) {
mathTextFixed = mathTextFixed.replace(t1, mathFix[t1]);
});
mathField.latex(mathTextFixed);

jQuery Mobile Filtered List - only match beginning of string

Im using the jQuery mobile search filter list:
http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/lists/lists-performance.html
Im having somer performance issues, my list is a little slow to filter on some phones. To try and aid performance I want to change the search so only items starting with the search text are returned.
So 'aris' currently finds the result 'paris' but I want this changed. I can see its possible from the documentation below but I dont know how to implement the code.
http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/lists/docs-lists.html
$("document").ready( function (){
$(".ui-listview").listview('option', 'filterCallback', yourFilterFunction)
});
This seems to demonstrate how you write and call your own function, but ive no idea how to write it! Thanks
http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2012/02/14/jquery-mobile-tip-write-your-own-list-view-filter-function/
UPDATE - Ive tried the following in a seperate js file:
$("document").ready( function (){
function beginsWith( text, pattern) {
text= text.toLowerCase();
pattern = pattern.toLowerCase();
return pattern == text.substr( 0, pattern.length );
}
$(".ui-listview").listview('option', 'filterCallback', beginsWith)
});
might look something like this:
function beginsWith( text, pattern) {
text= text.toLowerCase();
pattern = pattern.toLowerCase();
return pattern == text.substr( 0, pattern.length );
}
Basically you compare from 0 to "length" of what you're matching to the source. So if you pass in "test","tester" it will see you're passing in a string of length 4 and then substr "tester" from 0,4, which gives you "test". Then "test" is equal to "test"... so return true. Lowercase them to make it case insensitive.
Another trick to improve filter performance, only filter once they've entered more than 1 character.
edit it appears jQueryMobile's filter function expects that "true" means it was not found... so it needs to be backwards. return pattern != text.substr( 0, pattern.length );
This worked for me. I am using regular expression here so sort of different way to achieve the same thing.
But the reason why my code didn't work initially was that the list item had a lot of spaces at the beginning and at the end (found that it got added on it's own while debugging).
So I do a trim on the text before doing the match. I have a feeling Jonathan Rowny's implementation will also work if we do text.trim() before matching.
$(".ui-listview").listview('option', 'filterCallback', function (text, searchValue) {
var matcher = new RegExp("^" + searchValue, "i");
return !matcher.test(text.trim());
});

Using go-html-transform to preprocess HTML: Replace fails

Following on from this question on whitelisting HTML tags, I've been experimenting with Jeremy Wall's go-html-transform. In the hopes of improving searchable documentation I'm asking this here rather than pestering the author directly... hopefully this isn't too tool-specific for SO.
App Engine, latest SDK. Post.Body is a []byte. This works:
package posts
import (
// ...
"html/template"
"code.google.com/p/go-html-transform/html/transform"
"code.google.com/p/go-html-transform/h5"
)
// ...
// Pre-process post body, then return it to the template as HTML()
// to avoid html/template's escaping allowable tags
func (p *Post) BodyHTML() template.HTML {
doc, _ := transform.NewDoc(string(p.Body))
t := transform.NewTransform(doc)
// Add some text to the end of any <strong></strong> nodes.
t.Apply(transform.AppendChildren(h5.Text("<em>Foo</em>")), "strong")
return template.HTML(t.String())
}
Result:
<strong>Blarg.<em>Foo</em></strong>
However, if instead of AppendChildren() I use something like the following:
t.Apply(transform.Replace(h5.Text("<em>Foo</em>")), "strong")
I get an internal server error. Have I misunderstood the use of Replace()? The existing documentation suggests this sort of thing should be possible.
Running your transform code outside of App Engine, it panics and you can see a TODO in the source at that point. Then it's not too much harder to read the code and see that it's going to panic if given a root node.

How to create a parser which tokenizes a list of words taken from a file?

I am trying to do a syntax text corrector for my compilers' class. The idea is: I have some rules, which are inherent to the language (in my case, Portuguese), like "A valid phrase is SUBJECT VERB ADJECTIVE", as in "Ruby is great".
Ok, so first I have to tokenize the input "Ruby is great". So I have a text file "verbs", with a lot of verbs, one by line. Then I have one text "adjectives", one "pronouns", etc.
I am trying to use Ragel to create a parser, but I don't know how I could do something like:
%%{
machine test;
subject = <open-the-subjects-file-and-accept-each-one-of-them>;
verb = <open-the-verbs-file-and-accept-each-one-of-them>;
adjective = <open-the-adjective-file-and-accept-each-one-of-them>;
main = subject verb adjective # { print "Valid phrase!" } ;
}%%
I looked at ANTLR, Lex/Yacc, Ragel, etc. But couldn't find one that seemed to solve this problem. The only way to do this that I could think of was to preprocess Ragel's input file, so that my program reads the file and writes its contents at the right place. But I don't like this solution either.
Does anyone knows how I could do this? There's no problem if it isn't with Ragel, I just want to solve this problem. I would like to use Ruby or Python, but that's not really necessary either.
Thanks.
If you want to read the files at compile time .. make them be of the format:
subject = \
ruby|\
python|\
c++
then use ragel's 'include' or 'import' statement (I forget which .. must check the manual) to import it.
If you want to check the list of subjects at run time, maybe just make ragel read 3 words, then have an action associated with each word. The action can read the file and lookup if the word is good or not at runtime.
The action reads the text file and compares the word's contents.
%%{
machine test
action startWord {
lastWordStart = p;
}
action checkSubject {
word = input[lastWordStart:p+1]
for possible in open('subjects.txt'):
if possible == word:
fgoto verb
# If we get here do whatever ragel does to go to an error or just raise a python exception
raise Exception("Invalid subject '%s'" % word)
}
action checkVerb { .. exercise for reader .. ;) }
action checkAdjective { .. put adjective checking code here .. }
subject = ws*.(alnum*)>startWord%checkSubject
verb := : ws*.(alnum*)>startWord%checkVerb
adjective := ws*.)alnum*)>startWord%checkAdjective
main := subject;
}%%
With bison I would write the lexer by hand, which lookup the words in the predefined dictionary.

Best way of storing an "array of records" at design-time

I have a set of data that I need to store at design-time to construct the contents of a group of components at run-time.
Something like this:
type
TVulnerabilityData = record
Vulnerability: TVulnerability;
Name: string;
Description: string;
ErrorMessage: string;
end;
What's the best way of storing this data at design-time for later retrieval at run-time? I'll have about 20 records for which I know all the contents of each "record" but I'm stuck on what's the best way of storing the data.
The only semi-elegant idea I've come up with is "construct" each record on the unit's initialization like this:
var
VulnerabilityData: array[Low(TVulnerability)..High(TVulnerability)] of TVulnerabilityData;
....
initialization
VulnerabilityData[0].Vulnerability := vVulnerability1;
VulnerabilityData[0].Name := 'Name of Vulnerability1';
VulnerabilityData[0].Description := 'Description of Vulnerability1';
VulnerabilityData[0].ErrorMessage := 'Error Message of Vulnerability1';
VulnerabilityData[1]......
.....
VulnerabilityData[20]......
Is there a better and/or more elegant solution than this?
Thanks for reading and for any insights you might provide.
You can also declare your array as consts and initialize it...
const
VulnerabilityData: array[Low(TVulnerability)..High(TVulnerability)] of TVulnerabilityData =
(
(Vulnerability : vVulnerability1; Name : Name1; Description : Description1; ErrorMessage : ErrorMessage1),
(Vulnerability : vVulnerability2; Name : Name2; Description : Description2; ErrorMessage : ErrorMessage2),
[...]
(Vulnerability : vVulnerabilityX; Name : NameX; Description : DescriptionX; ErrorMessage : ErrorMessageX)
)
);
I don't have an IDE on this computer to double check the syntax... might be a comma or two missing. But this is how you should do it I think.
not an answer but may be a clue: design-time controls can have images and other binary data associated with it, why not write your data to a resource file and read from there? iterating of course, to make it simpler, extensible and more elegant
The typical way would be a file, either properties style (a=b\n on each line) cdf, xml, yaml (preferred if you have a parser for it) or a database.
If you must specify it in code as in your example, you should start by putting it in something you can parse into a simple format then iterate over it. For instance, in Java I'd instantiate an array:
String[] vals=new String[]{
"Name of Vulnerability1", "Description of Vulnerability1", "Error Message of Vulnerability1",
"Name of Vulnerability2", ...
}
This puts all your data into one place and the loop that reads it can easily be changed to read it from a file.
I use this pattern all the time to create menus and for other string-intensive initialization.
Don't forget that you can throw some logic in there too! For instance, with menus I will sometimes create them using data like this:
"^File", "Open", "Close", "^Edit", "Copy", "Paste"
As I'm reading this in I scan for the ^ which tells the code to make this entry a top level item. I also use "+Item" to create a sub-group and "-Item" to go back up to the previous group.
Since you are completely specifying the format you can add power later. For instance, if you coded menus using the above system, you might decide at first that you could use the first letter of each item as an accelerator key. Later you find out that File/Close conflicts with another "C" item, you can just change the protocol to allow "Close*e" to specify that E should be the accelerator. You could even include ctrl-x with a different character. (If you do shorthand data entry tricks like this, document it with comments!)
Don't be afraid to write little tools like this, in the long run they will help you immensely, and I can turn out a parser like this and copy/paste the values into my code faster than you can mold a text file to fit your example.

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