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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/biblio/bibtex/utils/qbibman/README b/biblio/bibtex/utils/qbibman/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7017d8c5ba --- /dev/null +++ b/biblio/bibtex/utils/qbibman/README @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +This software is an attempt to provide a program that manages BibTex-Databases. +Although there are a number of such attempts, I decided that I have to try to +implement features that are not present in other programs. Since the most +complicated part seemed to be the database-handling, I was happy to find the +BibTool package by Gerd Neugebauer that did this for me. I merely added a +graphical user interface. + +To install qbibman, you need Gerd Neugebauer BibTool package too from +CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.44.tar.gz + +Features + +- Browse lists for names and journals +- Search using regular expressions +- Automatic recoding of ISO-Characters to latex style* +- Reading of Auxfiles* +- Support for @string + to enter a reference to a @string use "@": e.g. you defined a string + @STRING{ssj="Some stupid journal"} + in your database, then you can refer to it by using "@ssj". +- Automatic key generation* +- Selection of multiple items with <Control> Left Mouse Button + Clicking without <Control> switches back to single item mode +- Printing (parts of) the database with customizable latex file + In single item mode the whole database is printed otherwise only the + selected items + If there is a latex file ".qbibman" in your home directory, it will be + used for generating screen and printer output. Just put "%CITATION" + (no spaces) on a line by its own into the file. It will be replaced by + "\nocite{...}" of [selected | all] items and the command + "\bibliography{...}". If this file is missing, a simple default is used. +- Keys of selected items can be put into X clipboard or into Lyx file (via Lyx + Server) using context menu (right mouse button click on the list). + +*These features are present in BibTool. + +The programm seems to be stable and does what I want. So I figured +that there might be other people who would like to use it. + +Ralf Goertz <R.Goertz@psych.uni-frankfurt.de> + +2000-09-05 + |