textproc/bibtool 2.68 OpenBSD

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.