inspec2bibtex.el? does it work?

inspec2bibtex.el? does it work?

[Jeff D. Hamann]

I've been trying to convert some INSPEC (actually WEBSPIRS?) downloads into
bibtex format with no success with some of the awk or perl scripts and found
the inspec2bibtex.el file on ctan. I tried to compile the file and I'm not
sure if it worked. Here's a list of the output I got from within emacs.

Compiling file c:/emacs-21.1/lisp/inspec2bibtex.el at Mon May 12 09:50:17
2003
  ** reference to free variable num
  ** assignment to free variable journal-abbrev
  ** reference to free variable journal-abbrev

While compiling match-journal-entry:
  ** reference to free variable num

While compiling match-proceedings-entry:
  ** reference to free variable num
  ** reference to free variable address

While compiling match-report-entry:
  ** reference to free variable num

While compiling match-in-collection-entry:
  ** reference to free variable num

While compiling match-in-book-entry:
  ** reference to free variable num

While compiling match-INSPEC-reference-field:
  ** assignment to free variable journal-name
  ** assignment to free variable volume
  ** assignment to free variable number
  ** reference to free variable month
  ** assignment to free variable month
  ** assignment to free variable year
  ** assignment to free variable pages

While compiling match-publisher-field:
  ** assignment to free variable publisher
  ** reference to free variable num

While compiling match-editors-field:
  ** assignment to free variable editors

While compiling match-sponsor-field:
  ** assignment to free variable organization

While compiling match-conf-address&dates:
  ** assignment to free variable address
  ** assignment to free variable dates
  ** assignment to free variable month

While compiling add-annotation:
  ** reference to free variable annote
  ** assignment to free variable annote

While compiling add-note:
  ** reference to free variable note
  ** assignment to free variable note

While compiling add-entry:
  ** reference to free variable assoc-value
  ** assignment to free variable assoc-value

While compiling make-key:
  ** reference to free variable year

Does this mean it worked? When I try to load a file I saved from a search in
WEBSPIRS nothing happens. Just what does this package do and how does it
work? I can't seem to find any references on the web.

And if anyone has a good tool for converting ISI and INSPEC to bibtex,
please let me know.

Thanks,
Jeff.

Re: inspec2bibtex.el? does it work?

[Thomas Link]

> Does this mean it worked? When I try to load a file I saved from a search in
> WEBSPIRS nothing happens. Just what does this package do and how does it
> work? I can't seem to find any references on the web.

I haven't tried it yet, but you should probably call the function 
`inspec2bibtex' after loading the elisp file. Type

	M-x load-library
	path to inspec2bibtex.el
	M-x inspec2bibtex
	path to the spirs file
	path to the bibtex file

It's not necessary to compile it.

Cheers,
Thomas.