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diff --git a/Build/source/extra/bibtex/bibtex.1 b/Build/source/extra/bibtex/bibtex.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..23b0676ddb1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/extra/bibtex/bibtex.1 @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +.TH BIBTEX 1 +.SH NAME +bibtex \- make a (La)TeX bibliography +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B bibtex auxname +.SH DESCRIPTION +BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary +.I (.aux) +file that was output during the running of +.BR (la)tex (1) +and creates a bibliography +.I (.bbl) +file that will be incorporated into the document on subsequent runs of (La)TeX. +The auxname on the command line must be given without the +.I .aux +extension. +.PP +BibTeX looks up, in the bibliographic database +.I (.bib) +files, +the entries specified by the \\cite and \\nocite commands +in the (La)TeX source file. +It formats the information from those entries +according to instructions in the style +.I (.bst) +file, +and it outputs the results to the +.I .bbl +file. +.PP +The LaTeX manual (aka +.I LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, +by Leslie Lamport) +explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with BibTeX. +Appendix B of the LaTeX manual describes the format of the +.I .bib +files. +The "BibTeXing" document describes extensions and details of that format, +and it gives other useful hints for using BibTeX. + +BibTeX on Unix incorporates the path-searching mechanism +described in the man page for +.BR tex (1). +As of the August 1988 web2c version, +BibTeX searches the TEXINPUTS path for +.I .bst +files, and the BIBINPUTS path for +.I .bib +files. +.PP +.SH FILES +.TP 20 +btxdoc.tex +"BibTeXing" \- LaTeXable documentation for general BibTeX users +.TP +btxhak.tex +"Designing BibTeX Styles" \- LaTeXable documentation for style designers +.TP +btxmac.tex +macros for using BibTeX with plain TeX +.TP +btxdoc.bib +database file for those two documents +.TP +xampl.bib +database file giving examples of all standard entry types +.TP +btxbst.doc +template file and documentation for the standard styles +.PP +All those files should be available somewhere on the system. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR latex (1), +.BR tex (1). |