Markdown and DVCS can change the way we collaborate. Even for those pesky journals that require a submission in Word format, you can do the majority of your work in Markdown and then convert to Word via pandoc (and if need be LibreOffice to convert .odt/.docx to .doc). However, a common bibliography is still difficult to pull off. The Makefile and scripts here automagically extract the relevant pandoc references from the specified BibTeX library and create a minimal local BibTeX file that you can include in your repository.
This was inspired by and expands upon the ideas in this blog post.
Requirements:
make- Git (Mercurial version available on Bitbucket)
pandoc- Python
- note that BibTexParser will work with Python 2 or 3, but the md-diff script will not work unmodified on Python 2.
- BibTexParser
License: My contributions are currently GPLv2, but I am building on the work of others, whose licensing conditions aren't yet clear. The LaTeX template is a modification of the standard pandoc template and is thus subject to the same restrictions.