Bibliography (Refer/Tib) Tools
Introduction
This document is a list of programs that manage bibliography files in the
refer
and
tib
formats. I have
decided, at least for this first draft, to make one entry for each package
rather than an entry for each program within the package.
This is a first draft. Please send any comments or additions to
dana@acm.org.
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.
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8 February 1995
Dana Jacobsen
dana@acm.org