embedding self-describing bibtex in dvi or pdf

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

Would something like attachfile help you?

http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/attachfile/attachfile.pdf

You could simply attach the bib file.

Uwe

Am Di., 29. Okt. 2019 um 10:33 Uhr schrieb Mike Marchywka <
marchywka at hotmail.com>:

>
>
> Do these or other formats support this ?
> For the DVI I can make a special that could be discovered with a dvi
> interpretter or just a dumb file reader if it is unique enough. PDF I know
> has a lot of flexibility but not sure what exists for this or if there
> already is a well known generally accepted approach to put in
> machine readable citation info.
>
> I could imagine tex macro for self info fields but not sure I have ever
> seen one.  pdfinfo comes close for pdf, I guess if you could add arbitrary
> key-value pairs this would work . What existing tex would let me insert
> stuff
> here to read later for bibtex extraction?
>
> pdfinfo cases.pdf
> Title:
> Subject:
> Keywords:
> Author:
> Creator:        LaTeX with hyperref package
> Producer:       pdfTeX-1.40.16
> CreationDate:   Tue Oct 29 04:51:45 2019
> ModDate:        Tue Oct 29 04:51:45 2019
> Tagged:         no
> UserProperties: no
> Suspects:       no
> Form:           none
> JavaScript:     no
> Pages:          738
> Encrypted:      no
> Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
> Page rot:       0
> File size:      10873604 bytes
> Optimized:      no
> PDF version:    1.5
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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