Bibliography (Refer/Tib) Tools

Introduction

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Software

BibStuff

ftp://ftp.primate.wisc.edu/pub/BibStuff/BibStuff-2.03.shar (264k)

Author:

Paul DuBois (dubois@primate.wisc.edu)

Version:

2.03 (18 Jan 92)

Language:

C

Description:

A large collection of utilities. Also inludes and uses a set of C routines that allow transparent access to refer bibliographies from C programs.

Contains:

• bibcmp -- find near-duplicate records
• bibcomm -- find unique and common records
• bibcross -- generate ``cross product'' of fields within records
• bibhead -- give first few records from databases
• biborder -- reorder fields within records
• bibpos -- generate position file from database
• bibsel -- select or reject records using a position file
• bibsplit -- split a database into pieces
• bibtrash -- find bad records in databases
• bibuniq -- remove or select duplicates from database
• bibwc -- count records in databases

Maintained:

unknown

Annotation:

Requires a number of other packages to make, and I personally find it a terrible pain, since each package requires a whole slew of others until I've reproduced the author's entire development environment on my machine.

groff

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/groff-1.09.tar.gz (843k)

Author:

James Clark (jjc@jclark.com)

Version:

1.09 (19 Feb 94)

Language:

C++

Description:

A complete replacement for the ditroff package, including refer.

Contains:

• refer -- preprocess bibliographic references for groff
• indxbib -- make inverted index for bibliographic databases
• lookbib -- search bibliographic databases (interactively)
• lkbib -- search bibliographic databases (with arguments)

Maintained:

by author

Annotation:

bib

ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/budd/bib.tar.Z (90k)

Author:

Timothy Budd (budd@cs.orst.edu)

Version:

December 1987

Language:

C

Description:

An alternative to refer.

Contains:

• bib -- formatter for troff
• bibtex -- formatter for TeX
• invert -- create inverted index
• listrefs -- list references
• lookup -- lookup references using index

Maintained:

No.

Annotation:

This is a pretty old system.

bib-cite

ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/bib/bib-cite.tar.Z (2,423k)

Author:

Richard Snodgrass

Version:

25 June 1991

Language:

C

Description:

A package for managing BIB (refer) bibliographies.

Contains:

• bib -- editor. Allows creation, editing, searching, and combining.
• index -- makes an index
• submit -- submits records to a public database
• cite -- processes citations in a manuscript
• findref -- finds entries in bib files
• refconvert -- converts refer to bib

Maintained:

No.

Annotation:

Includes a number of bibliographies.

tib

ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/biblio/tib/

Author:

James Alexander (jca@math.umd.edu)

Version:

3.2

Language:

C

Description:

Manages databases in tib format and processes TeX files to insert citations. A replacement for the functionality of BibTeX, though it works much more like refer.

Contains:

• tib -- bibliographic processor for TeX documents
• tibadd -- look up a journal and print tib abbreviation
• tibdex -- makes inverted index from databases
• tiblist -- lists all members in the databases
• tiblook -- locates listings in the databases

Maintained:

Not actively, but the author will answer e-mail about the package.

Annotation:

Sort of a refer for TeX. It has a few additional features that refer doesn't have. Nice documentation. Some people think this is much better than BibTeX.