Re: CTAN submission -- BibTool 2.47 - ctan-ann

16 Jan 2003

      On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Gerd Neugebauer wrote:
...
I have uploaded Release 2.47 of BibTool to
ftp.dante.de:/incoming/BibTool-2.47.tar.gz
BibTool is distributed under the GPL.
The uploaded file should go into the directory
biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool. The file BibTool-2.46.tar.gz residing there
can be deleted.
Several and tiny enhancements have made it into this release.
I append the README file for a general description
of BibTool.
Ciao
         Gerd
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       BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases

BibTeX provides    an easy to  use means   to integrate  citations and
bibliographies into LaTeX documents.  But the user  is left alone with
the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to
fill this gap.  BibTool allows the  manipulation of BibTeX files which
goes  beyond the possibilities --- and intentions  --- of BibTeX.  The
possibilities of BibTool include

Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases 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  data  bases 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 data bases.

BibTool  contains a  documentation written  in  LaTeX of  more than 60
pages (and still growing).
BibTool is written  in C and  has  been compiled on  various operating
systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines.  It is distributed in
source code.   No compiled  versions  are  available from  the  author
(Useless to ask!).
BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives:

ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool

Get  the  file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz  where  x.xx is the version number.
Unpack it with the command (on UN*X)
     gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

Alternatively get the file  BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version
number.  Unpack it with the command
     unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip

It will create  a  directory  named  BibTool-x.xx which contains   the
installation instructions in the file install.tex.

Thanks for the update, I installed the new file in
bibliography/bibtex/utils/bibtool
and deleted the old one.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf