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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label makebib</title>
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<h3>Reconstructing <code>.bib</code> files</h3>
<p/>Perhaps you&rsquo;ve lost the <code>.bib</code> file you generated your document from,
or have been sent a document without one.  Or even, you&rsquo;ve realised
the error of building a substantial document without the benefit of
BibTeX...
<p/>The <i>Perl</i> script, <i>tex2bib</i> makes a reasonable job
of regenerating <code>.bib</code> files from <code>thebibliography</code>
environments, provided that the original (whether automatically or
manually generated) doesn&rsquo;t deviate too far from the &ldquo;standard&rdquo;
styles.
<p/>You are well-advised to check the output of the script.  While it will
not usually destroy information, it can quite reasonably mislabel it.
<p/>Documentation of the script is to be found in the file <i>tex2bib.readme</i>
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<dt><tt><i>tex2bib</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archivebiblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/tex2bib">biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/tex2bib</a>
<dt><tt><i>tex2bib.readme</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archivebiblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/README">biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/README</a>
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=makebib">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=makebib</a>
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