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Getting Started with BibTool
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A Tool to Manipulate BibTeX Files
Getting Started with BibTool
Version 2.45
Gerd Neugebauer
BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and
bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with
the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is
intended to fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of
BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities---and
intentions---of BibTeX. The possibilities of BibTool include
- Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of
parameters.
- Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and
helpful error messages.
- Semantic checks can be specified by the user.
- Sorting and merging of BibTeX data bases according to a free
definable sort key.
- Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined
rules or according to an own specification.
- Selecting references used in one publication which are found by
analyzing an .aux file.
- Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions).
- Controlled rewriting of fields utilizing regular expressions to
specify the rewriting rules.
- Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string
definitions.
- Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases.
BibTool contains a user's manual written in LaTeX of more than 60
pages (and still growing).
BibTool is written in C and has been compiled on various operating
systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines. It is distributed in
source code.
No compiled versions are available from the author (Useless to
ask!).
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Getting Started with BibTool
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© 2002
Gerd Neugebauer