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bibtool-2.68

tool for manipulating BibTeX databases

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Description

BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities -- and intentions -- of BibTeX. The possibilities of BibTool include - Pretty-printing of BibTeX databases 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 databases 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 databases.

Package information

Ports path
textproc/bibtool
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
Categories
textproc
Available flavors
None listed

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