CTAN submission – BibTool 2.47

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Gerd Neugebauer wrote: > I have uploaded Release 2.47 of BibTool to > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/BibTool-2.47.tar.gz > BibTool is distributed under the GPL. > > The uploaded file should go into the directory > biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool. The file BibTool-2.46.tar.gz residing there > can be deleted. > > Several and tiny enhancements have made it into this release. > I append the README file for a general description > of BibTool. > > Ciao > Gerd > > ====================================================================== > > ###### ############ > ####### ############ > ## ## ## > ## ## ## ##### ## #### #### ## > ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ## > ####### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## > ## ## ## ###### ## ## ## ## ## ## > ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## > ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## > ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ####### > ###### ## ##### ## #### #### ####### > > ====================================================================== > > BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases > > > 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 documentation 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!). > > BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives: > > * ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool > * ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool > * ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool > > Get the file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz where x.xx is the version number. > Unpack it with the command (on UN*X) > > gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf - > > Alternatively get the file BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version > number. Unpack it with the command > > unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip > > It will create a directory named BibTool-x.xx which contains the > installation instructions in the file install.tex. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed the new file in bibliography/bibtex/utils/bibtool and deleted the old one. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf