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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!orstcs!prism!jacobsd
  2. From: jacobsd@prism.cs.orst.edu (Dana Jacobsen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
  4. Subject: Re: Bibliography program?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep06.195528.27222@CS.ORST.EDU>
  6. Date: 6 Sep 92 19:55:28 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: CS.1992Sep06.195528.27222
  8. References: <1992Sep6.010321.23413@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
  9. Sender: usenet@CS.ORST.EDU
  10. Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept
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  13.  
  14. In <1992Sep6.010321.23413@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
  15. >@article{lindstrom:79,
  16. >  title="Backtracking in a Generalized Control Setting",
  17. >  author="Gary Lindstrom",
  18. >  journal=toplas,
  19. >  year=1979,
  20. >  month=jul,
  21. >  volume=1,
  22. >  number=1,
  23. >  pages="8--26"
  24. >}
  25.  
  26. >The curious format suggests that somewhere, there is a program that
  27. >uses this format to do potentially useful and interesting things with
  28. >it.
  29.  
  30.   This is BibTeX format, described in Appendix B of the LaTeX Book by
  31. Leslie Lamport:
  32.  
  33. @book{Lamport86,
  34.    author = {Leslie Lamport},
  35.    title = {LaTeX: A Document Preparation System},
  36.    publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  37.    address = {Reading, MA},
  38.    year = {1986}
  39.    note = {13th printing},
  40. }
  41.  
  42.   It is a common bibliography format, and is integrated with LaTeX.  It
  43. can be converted to a few other formats, if you're more familiar with
  44. something like refer:
  45.  
  46. %A Leslie Lamport
  47. %T LaTeX: A Document Preparation System
  48. %I Addison-Wesley
  49. %C Reading, MA
  50. %D 1986
  51. %O 13th printing
  52.  
  53.   There are quite a few programs that can manipulate this format, LaTeX
  54. and BibTeX being one way to use them.  However this isn't really a
  55. reference manager of any kind, just a way to print out citations.  There
  56. are 2 X-Windows programs I know of, Bibcard and Bibview, that will let
  57. you add, remove, change, search, etc. BibTeX databases.  There are a
  58. few text based systems that will do the job also, and lots of little
  59. scripts that will help you out.
  60.  
  61.   I have recently compiled a list and the programs I know of into one
  62. site.  Here is the file cerberus.cor.epa.gov:/pub/bibtools/biblio-README:
  63.  
  64.   This list compiled by Dana Jacobsen in September 1992.  All of
  65. these programs are available at cerberus.cor.epa.gov (134.67.4.48)
  66. in /pub/bibtools.
  67.  
  68. Lang:  P = Perl
  69.        C = C code
  70.        A = awk/sed
  71.        S = shell commands
  72. ----
  73. Dana Jacobsen
  74. jacobsd@solar.cor2.epa.gov
  75. jacobsd@cs.orst.edu
  76.  
  77. #################
  78. BibTeX tools
  79.  
  80. tool         version/Yr/Lng  where
  81. -------------- ------------- -------------------------
  82. bibcount       1.0   92/P    cerberus.cor.epa.gov:/pub/bibtools/bibcount
  83.                              count bibliography entries
  84.  
  85. bibj           1.3   92/P    cerberus.cor.epa.gov:/pub/bibtools/bibj
  86.                              count journals
  87.  
  88. bibtv          0.2.3 92/P    cerberus.cor.epa.gov:/pub/bibtools/bibtv
  89.                              view and interactively search
  90.  
  91. bibcard        1.01  92/C    iam.unibe.ch:/X11/Bibcard-1.01.tar.Z
  92.                              X (XView) tool
  93.  
  94. bibclean       1.05  92/C    csc-sun.math.utah.edu:/pub/tex/bib/bibclean-1.05.tar.z
  95.                              prettyprint a BibTeX file
  96.  
  97. bibfix         3.0   91/A    posted by Christian.Collberg@dna.lth.se 19Mar92
  98.                              Bibliographic cross reference generator for LaTeX
  99.  
  100. bibgrep        ---   91/P    nuri.inria.fr:/INRIA/bib/bibgrep.pl.Z
  101.  
  102.  
  103. bibview        1.0   92/C    posted by liebla@informatik.tu-muenchen.de 31Aug92
  104.                              X (Xt) tool
  105.  
  106. lookbibtex     1.22  92/P    ftp.cs.ucla.edu:/pub/ficus/lookbibtex.1.43.shar.Z
  107.                              search through BibTeX file
  108.  
  109. bibdestringify 1.02  92/P    ftp.cs.ucla.edu:/pub/ficus/lookbibtex.1.43.shar.Z
  110.                              remove strings from BibTeX file
  111.  
  112. aux2bib         7aug 92/P    posted by dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu 3 Sep 92
  113.                              make a portable .bib file from a .aux file
  114.                              all filed under dfkutils.tar.Z
  115.  
  116. bibify         17may 90/S    posted by dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu 3 Sep 92
  117.                              eliminate one pass of latex for bibliographies
  118.  
  119. bibkey          3aug 92/A    posted by dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu 3 Sep 92
  120.                              list all records with a given keyword in "keyword"
  121.  
  122. cleantex        5feb 92/S    posted by dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu 3 Sep 92
  123.                              remove all tex/latex generated files
  124.  
  125. looktex         3aug 92/A    posted by dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu 3 Sep 92
  126.                              list all records matching a regex
  127.  
  128. makebib        27aug 92/S    posted by dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu 3 Sep 92
  129.                              make exportable .bib file from multiple .bib files
  130.  
  131. printbib       13jan 92/S    posted by dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu 3 Sep 92
  132.                              makes a dvi file from a .bib file
  133.  
  134. bibtools        3dec 89/C    lth.se:/pub/references/sources/bibtools.sh
  135.                              create, verify, show, and remove records
  136.                              files: bibc, bibv, shbib, rmbib
  137.  
  138. btt            15dec 90/C    posted by king@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au 15 Dec 90
  139.                              add, find, list, print, sort bibtex files
  140.                              files: btt, bibadd, bibadjust, bibgrep, bibsort
  141.  
  142. bib-cite       25jun 91/C    cs.arizona.edu:/bib/bib-cite.tar.Z
  143.                              complete package supports bibtex and refer
  144.                              files: db, bibdb, cite, findref, refconvert
  145.  
  146.  
  147.  
  148. #################
  149. refer tools
  150.  
  151. tool         version/Yr/Lng  where
  152. -------------- ------------- -------------------------
  153. bib-cite       25jun 91/C    cs.arizona.edu:/bib/bib-cite.tar.Z
  154.                              complete package supports bibtex and refer
  155.                              files: db, bibdb, cite, findref, refconvert
  156.  
  157. dviroffbib     1.0   92/S    cerberus.cor.epa.gov:pub/bibtools/dviroffbib
  158.                              displays a refer bibliography using groff and xdvi
  159.  
  160. bib            dec   87/C    cs.orst.edu:/pub/budd/bib.tar.Z
  161.                              an alternative to refer
  162.                              files: bib, invert, lookup, listrefs
  163.  
  164. groff          1.06  92/C++  prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/groff-1.06.tar.Z
  165.                              a ditroff replacement
  166.                              files: lookbib, indxbib, lkbib, refer
  167.  
  168.  
  169.  
  170. #################
  171. conversion tools
  172.  
  173. tool         version/Yr/Lng  where
  174. -------------- ------------- -------------------------
  175. r2b            0.8.0 92/P    cerberus.cor.epa.gov:/pub/bibtools/r2b
  176.                              refer or tib -> bibtex
  177.  
  178. ref2bib        ---   88/A    ftp.ai.mit.edu:/pub/refer-to-bibtex/ref2bib.shar
  179.                              refer -> bibtex
  180.  
  181. refer-to-bibtex.el   88/E    ftp.ai.mit.edu:/pub/refer-to-bibtex/refer-to-bibtex.el
  182.                              refer -> bibtex
  183.  
  184. refconvert     aug   88/A    cs.arizona.edu:/bib/bib-cite.tar.Z
  185.                              refer -> bibtex
  186.  
  187. r2bib          WOK   88/C    archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/bibliographies/eugene/r2bib.c
  188.                              refer -> bibtex   (original in 1986)
  189.  
  190. ref2bib.p      ---   88/Pasc lth.se:/pub/references/sources/ref2bib.p
  191.                              refer -> bibtex
  192.  
  193. ttb            1.3   90/C    ftp.ai.mit.edu:/pub/refer-to-bibtex/tib-to-bibtex.shar
  194.                              tib -> bibtex
  195.  
  196. tex2refer      ---   90/A    ftp.ai.mit.edu:/pub/refer-to-bibtex/tex2refer
  197.                              bibtex -> refer
  198.  
  199. bib2refer      ---   90/S    Ciaran McHale (cjmchale@cs.tcd.ie) 8/4/90
  200.                              bibtex + bst -> refer
  201.  
  202. foc2bib        0.1.1 92/P    cerberus.cor.epa.gov:/pub/bibtools/foc2bib
  203.                              ISI Focus on xxx -> bibtex
  204.  
  205. med2bib        0.1.0 92/P    cerberus.cor.epa.gov:/pub/bibtools/med2bib
  206.                              BRS Medline -> bibtex
  207.                              [note:  there seem to be >10 different "medline" formats]
  208.  
  209. medlin2bibtex   1may 92/A    fly.bio.indiana.edu:/help/medlin2bibtex.txt
  210.                              MEDLIB -> bibtex
  211.  
  212. ris2bib        0.2.1 92/P    cerberus.cor.epa.gov:/pub/bibtools/ris2bib
  213.                              RIS (Reference Manager) -> bibtex
  214.  
  215. embl2bibtex.pl 16jan 92/P    umiacs.umd.edu:/pub/biocomp/embl2bibtex.pl
  216.                              .dat (seqanalr) -> bibtex
  217.  
  218.