/**
 * A small BibTeX / BibLaTeX reader: entries, `@string` macros, `#`
 * concatenation, braced and quoted values, name lists, LaTeX accents and
 * dashes — enough for what Zotero, JabRef, Mendeley and Google Scholar
 * export. Entries become CSL-JSON items.
 */
import type { CslItem, CslName } from './types.js';
/** LaTeX markup of a field value as plain text: accents composed,
 *  escapes and dashes resolved, braces dropped. */
export declare function latexToText(value: string): string;
/** The name that ends a list cut short: BibTeX's `and others`, written
 *  `{literal: others}` as Pandoc writes it (#533). A style prints "et al."
 *  in its place. */
export declare const ET_AL_NAME: CslName;
/** Whether `name` stands for the names left out (`others`). */
export declare function isEtAlName(name: CslName | undefined): boolean;
/** A diagnostic of the reader: what it skipped and where. */
export interface BibtexIssue {
    message: string;
    /** Offset in the source. */
    at: number;
}
/** The CSL-JSON items of a BibTeX / BibLaTeX source. */
export declare function parseBibtex(source: string, issues?: BibtexIssue[]): CslItem[];
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