ctanbib
Section: ctanbib man page (1)
Updated: 28 aug 2018
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NAME
ctanbib
- retrieve bibliographic information for packages hosted on CTAN.
SYNOPSIS
ctanbib <options> [package name]
DESCRIPTION
This command can retrieve bibliographic information for TeX packages hosted on
CTAN in the BibTeX format.
OPTIONS
- -c,--ctan
-
use @ctan type instead of @manual. The difference between the two is that the
url field contains package CTAN path, instead of link to the package.
- -C,--CTAN
-
like --ctan option, but use original url instead of CTAN path.
- -h,--help
-
print the help message.
- -v,--version
-
print the version info.
EXAMPLES
$ ctanbib latex
This invocation will print data in the BibLaTeX format to the standard output:
@manual{latex,
title = {The Latex package},
subtitle = {A TeX macro package that defines LaTeX},
author = {Lamport, Leslie and The LaTeX Team},
url = {http://www.latex-project.org/},
urldate = {2018-08-23},
date = {2018-04-01},
version = {PL 5}
}
The --ctan option:
$ ctanbib -c hyperref
This produces bib record with the @ctan type:
@ctan{hyperref,
title = {The Hyperref package},
subtitle = {Extensive support for hypertext in LaTeX},
author = {Rahtz, Sebastian and Oberdiek, Heiko},
url = {/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref},
urldate = {2018-08-27},
date = {},
version = {6.86b}
}
See also
See ctanbib-doc.pdf for more details
BUGS
No known bugs.
AUTHOR
Michal Hoftich (michal.h21@gmail.com)
LICENSE
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this software
under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3.
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- EXAMPLES
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- See also
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- BUGS
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- AUTHOR
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