ctanbib(1) ctanbib man page ctanbib(1)
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.
Look up the Catalogue entry for each PKGNAME on CTAN (at
https://ctan.org/xml/2.0/pkg/PKGNAME), and convert relevant information
to a BibTeX entry.
By default, the url field in the output entry is the package's home
field value if that is specified in the Catalogue entry; if it isn't,
https://ctan.org/pkg/PKGNAME is used.
OPTIONS
-c,--ctan
Always use CTAN /pkg/ url instead of the package homepage
-C,--CTAN
Use the package's CTAN path as url (e.g.: /support/ctanbib)
-e,--entrytype
(default manual) Change entry type
-h,--help
print the help message.
-p,--pkgname
Wrap the package name in a tanbibpkgname command This command
can be redefined in the document for the desired formatting.
-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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