support multiple named bibtex files

[pholthaus]

I don't know if pull requests are desired or not. My modifications accomplish the following:

Define multiple bib files like this in pelicanconf.py:

PUBLICATIONS = { 'Conference Proceedings': 'content/proceedings.bib',
                 'Journal Articles': 'content/articles.bib'}

A header will be generated by default, but can be disabled by setting the following:

PUBLICATIONS_HEADER = False

Also, publications now are sorted by year so that templates can insert headers in between.
For a live example, please see https://robothouse.herts.ac.uk/publications/

[vene]

This is a great idea!

I've also seen people group papers by research topic etc. On my website (where i just manually maintain a Markdown list) I now moved to "selected papers" followed by a long list.

Of course for the selected papers I don't want year sub-headers. So i wonder how we can make this more flexible and customizable (maybe with a sort of dict of options in the config file?)
At the same time it can be bad to aim for overly general features from the start

[pholthaus]

Yeah, you are right. I have added some variables that should do the job.

edit: removed template

[pholthaus]

Ah, I see what I missed, we need the settings per file.

[pholthaus]

In the current state, it allows for such a configuration:

PUBLICATIONS_NAVBAR = True
PUBLICATIONS = {
  'peer': {
    'title': 'Peer Reviewed',
    'file': 'content/peer.bib',
    'split_link': False,
    'highlight': ['Patrick Holthaus'] },
  'others': {
    'title': 'Others',
    'file': 'content/others.bib',
    'split': False,
    'bottom_link': False,
    'highlight': ['Patrick Holthaus'] }
}

[pholthaus]

Updated template:

{% extends "page.html" %}

{% block content %}

<!-- bibtex popup -->
<script bib="text/javascript">
function disp(s) {
    var win;
    var doc;
    win = window.open("", "rh-bibtex-entry",'width=600,height=200');
    doc = win.document;
    doc.open("text/html");
    doc.write("<pre>" + s + "</pre>");
    doc.close();
}
</script>

<!-- header part: original bootstrap pages content block -->
<section id="content" class="body">
    {% if page.title %}
        <h1 class="entry-title">{{ page.title }}</h1>
    {% endif %}
    {% import 'includes/translations.html' as translations with context %}
    {{ translations.translations_for(page) }}
    {% if PDF_PROCESSOR %}
        <a href="{{ SITEURL }}/pdf/{{ page.slug }}.pdf">
            get the pdf
        </a>
    {% endif %}
    <div class="entry-content">
        {{ page.content }}

<!-- add header navbar -->
{% if PUBLICATIONS_NAVBAR %}
    <p>
    {% for bib in publications %}
        <a class="reference external" href="#{{ bib }}">{{ publications[bib]['title'] }}</a>
        {% if not loop.last %}&middot;{% endif %}
    {% endfor %}
    </p>
{% endif %}

<!-- add publication list -->
{% for bib in publications %}
    <div class="publications" id="{{ bib }}">
        {% if publications[bib]['header'] %}
          <h2>{{ publications[bib]['title'] }}</h2>
        {% endif %}
        {% if publications[bib]['split'] %}
            {% set remember = namespace(year="0") %}
            {% for key, year, text, bibtex, pdf, slides, poster in publications[bib]['data'] %}
                {% if remember.year != year %}
                    {% if remember.year !="0" %}
                        </ul>
                        {% if publications[bib]['split_link'] %}
                        <div style="text-align:right"><i class="fa fa-arrow-up"></i> <a href="#">Back to top</a></div>
                        {% endif %}
                    {% endif %}
                    <h3>{{ year }}</h3>
                    <ul>
                    {% set remember.year=year %}
                {% endif %}
                <li style="margin: 5px 0;" id="{{ key }}">{{ text }} [&nbsp;<a href="javascript:disp('{{ bibtex|replace('\n', '\\n')|escape|forceescape }}');">BibTeX</a>&nbsp;]
                {% for label, target in [('PDF', pdf), ('Slides', slides), ('Poster', poster)] %}
                    {{ "[&nbsp;<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>&nbsp;]" % (target, label) if target }}
                {% endfor %}
                </li>
            {% endfor %}
            </ul>
        {% else %}
            <ul>
            {% for key, year, text, bibtex, pdf, slides, poster in publications[bib]['data'] %}
                <li style="margin: 5px 0;" id="{{ key }}">{{ text }} [&nbsp;<a href="javascript:disp('{{ bibtex|replace('\n', '\\n')|escape|forceescape }}');">BibTeX</a>&nbsp;]
                {% for label, target in [('PDF', pdf), ('Slides', slides), ('Poster', poster)] %}
                    {{ "[&nbsp;<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>&nbsp;]" % (target, label) if target }}
                {% endfor %}
                </li>
            {% endfor %}
            </ul>
        {% endif %}

        {{ publications[bib]['link'] }}
          {% if not loop.last and publications[bib]['bottom_link'] %}
              <div style="text-align:right"><i class="fa fa-arrow-up"></i> <a href="#">Back to top</a></div>
          {% endif %}
    </div>
{% endfor %}

<!-- footer part: original bootstrap pages content block -->
        {% if page.comments == 'enabled' %}
            {% include 'includes/comments.html' %}
        {% endif %}
    </div>
</section>

{% endblock %}

[pholthaus]

I have updated my personal website now. This is actually a live example of the plugin, the template and configuration above:

https://patrick.holthaus.info/publications/

[pholthaus]

the source code for this site can now be found at https://gitlab.com/pholthau/personal-website