Re: change latex output with csquotes

23 April 2012 17:02, Diogo <ogoid.backup@...>:

> I have no experience with Haskell/functional languages and
> have no clue of how to do this.

Haskell programmers are like concert pianists: one can admire
their virtuosity without longing to be able to do the same.

> Basically what I want is to substitute occurrences of
> `\enquote{bla}\autocite{key}` in the generated Latex file by
> `\textquote[\autocite{key}]{bla}`.
>

I do that sort of thing with a Lua script: if you have TeX,
you have luatex, and luatex does Lua.  Anyone can
learn basic Lua by just looking at a sample of working
code.  (Advanced Lua is subtle, but you don't need it.)

~~~ requote.lua
name = arg[1]
input = assert(io.open(name),"Can't read from"..name)
source = input:read("*a")
search = "\\enquote{(.-)}\\autocite{(.-)}"
replace = "\\textquote[\\autocite{%2}]{%1}"
output = assert(io.open(name,"w"),"Can't write to "..name)
output:write (source:gsub(search,replace))
~~~

Then just

     $ luatex requote.lua generatedfile.tex

I'd be scared in general to use a script like this one which
replaces the input file instead of writing a new one, but since
it's only a generated file, your real source is not at risk.
Another advantage of using Pandoc.

Dirk