bibtex(1) [centos man page]
BIBTEX(1) Web2C 2012 BIBTEX(1) NAME
bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX SYNOPSIS
bibtex [-min-crossrefs=number] [-terse] auxname[.aux] DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file auxname that was output during the running of latex(1) or tex(1) and creates a bibliogra- phy (.bbl) file that will be incorporated into the document on subsequent runs of LaTeX or TeX. BibTeX looks up, in bibliographic database (.bib) files specified by the ibliography command, the entries specified by the cite and ocite commands in the LaTeX or TeX source file. It formats the information from those entries according to instructions in a bibliogra- phy style (.bst) file (specified by the ibliographystyle command, and it outputs the results to the .bbl file. The LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with BibTeX. Appendix B of the manual describes the format of the .bib files. The `BibTeXing' document describes extensions and details of this format, and it gives other useful hints for using BibTeX. OPTIONS
The -min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of crossref required for automatic inclusion of the crossref'd entry on the citation list; the default is two. With the -terse option, BibTeX operates silently. Without it, a banner and progress reports are printed on std- out. ENVIRONMENT
BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined by the BSTINPUTS environment variable for .bst files. If BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses the system default. For .bib files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable if that is set, otherwise the default. See tex(1) for the details of the searching. If the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT is set, BibTeX attempts to put its output files in it, if they cannot be put in the current direc- tory. Again, see tex(1). No special searching is done for the .aux file. FILES
*.bst Bibliography style files. btxdoc.tex ``BibTeXing'' - LaTeXable documentation for general BibTeX users btxhak.tex ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable documentation for style designers btxdoc.bib database file for those two documents xampl.bib database file giving examples of all standard entry types btxbst.doc template file and documentation for the standard styles All those files should be available somewhere on your system. The host math.utah.edu has a vast collection of .bib files available for anonymous ftp, including references for all the standard TeX books and a complete bibliography for TUGboat. SEE ALSO
latex(1), tex(1). Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X. AUTHOR
Oren Patashnik, Stanford University. This man page describes the web2c version of BibTeX. Other ports of BibTeX, such as Donald Knuth's version using the Sun Pascal compiler, do not have the same path searching implementation, or the command-line options. bibtex 0.99d 1 February 2010 BIBTEX(1)
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Text::BibTeX::File(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::BibTeX::File(3pm) NAME
Text::BibTeX::File - interface to whole BibTeX files SYNOPSIS
use Text::BibTeX; # this loads Text::BibTeX::File $bib = new Text::BibTeX::File "foo.bib" or die "foo.bib: $! "; # or: $bib = new Text::BibTeX::File; $bib->open ("foo.bib") || die "foo.bib: $! "; $bib->set_structure ($structure_name, $option1 => $value1, ...); $at_eof = $bib->eof; $bib->close; DESCRIPTION
"Text::BibTeX::File" provides an object-oriented interface to BibTeX files. Its most obvious purpose is to keep track of a filename and filehandle together for use by the "Text::BibTeX::Entry" module (which is much more interesting). In addition, it allows you to specify certain options which are applicable to a whole database (file), rather than having to specify them for each entry in the file. Currently, you can specify the database structure and some structure options. These concepts are fully documented in Text::BibTeX::Structure. METHODS
Object creation, file operations new ([FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]]]) Creates a new "Text::BibTeX::File" object. If FILENAME is supplied, passes it to the "open" method (along with MODE and PERMS if they are supplied). If the "open" fails, "new" fails and returns false; if the "open" succeeds (or if FILENAME isn't supplied), "new" returns the new object reference. open (FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]]) Opens the file specified by FILENAME, possibly using MODE and PERMS. See IO::File for full semantics; this "open" is just a front end for "IO::File::open". close () Closes the filehandle associated with the object. If there is no such filehandle (i.e., "open" was never called on the object), does nothing. eof () Returns the end-of-file state of the filehandle associated with the object: a true value means we are at the end of the file. Object properties set_structure (STRUCTURE [, OPTION => VALUE, ...]) Sets the database structure for a BibTeX file. At the simplest level, this means that entries from the file are expected to conform to certain field requirements as specified by the structure module. It also gives you full access to the methods of the particular structured entry class for this structure, allowing you to perform operations specific to this kind of database. See "CLASS INTERACTIONS" in Text::BibTeX::Structure for all the consequences of setting the database structure for a "Text::BibTeX::File" object. structure () Returns the name of the database structure associated with the object (as set by "set_structure"). preserve_values ([PRESERVE]) Sets the "preserve values" flag, to control all future parsing of entries from this file. If PRESERVE isn't supplied, returns the current state of the flag. See Text::BibTeX::Value for details on parsing in "value preservation" mode. SEE ALSO
Text::BibTeX, Text::BibTeX::Entry, Text::BibTeX::Structure AUTHOR
Greg Ward <gward@python.net> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997-2000 by Gregory P. Ward. All rights reserved. This file is part of the Text::BibTeX library. This library is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-06-02 Text::BibTeX::File(3pm)