Make references optional

[AitzazImtiaz]

Is it possible that when I run mathgen, I can pass an instruction to add no reference, It is really annoying to do all that manually when the reference does not make sense in the first place.

[neldredge]

There isn't currently an option to do this. You could do it by going through sciarticle.in and scirules.in, and editing out all uses of CITATION and NOCITATION. Many of the sentences use a citation like a noun, though, so you would have to rewrite them into something that would still be grammatical, or remove them and optionally replace them with some different sentences.

[AitzazImtiaz]

Hey sorry on passing it late, I need no reference section at all, will this be possible by cutting out the code?

[neldredge]

I'm not sure if bibtex will complain about having no citations. You might need to delete the lines that generate the bibliography, the four lines at

mathgen/sciarticle.in

Lines 343 to 346 in 12f5e60

	\begin{footnotesize}
	\bibliography{scigenbibfile}
	LATEX_BIBSTYLE
	\end{footnotesize}

And then possibly stop bibtex from running at all, by deleting

mathgen/mathgen.pl

Line 358 in 12f5e60

bibtex($basename);

[AitzazImtiaz]

Like, if I cut that, a possible output would be

we wish to extend the result of [??] to...

[AitzazImtiaz]

Output:

Unrecognized switch: --mode=view (-h will show valid options

[neldredge]

You have a typo in the command line; you're missing the argument to -I. To search the current directory for modules, you need -I . so make it

perl -I . ./mathgen.pl --mode=view --author="Mr Beast" --viewer=xpdf

I tried your fork. I think you accidentally deleted the closing brace of TITLEBLOCK_ARTICLE. There are also some rules that you deleted without removing all uses of them, e.g. LATEX_FOOTER, and I think there is still at least one use of CITATION.