ibibproc

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What is ibibproc?

ibibproc is a bibliography processor similar to BibTeX. Its primary distinguishing features are:

Internationalised. References can be multilingual and multiscript.
Customisable and extendible. Styles, database formats, front-ends, and back-ends can be tailored and extended.
Multiple front- and back-ends. Citations and references can be formatted for use with several document processing systems.

News

Sun Jun 29 2003: Added section "Quick Start".
Tue Mar 18 2003: Home page created. The project is not yet in a usable state. However the btxplain style works for simple reference databases and the TeX back-end.

Mailing list

ibibproc-announce is a low-traffic mailing list for ibibproc announements. See the subscription page and archives.

Releases

There are no (unstable or stable) releases yet.

Anonymous CVS

The project is hosted by SourceForge. See the project page for details about anononymous CVS access.

Quick Start

ibibproc is still only available from CVS, but if you are eager to see what it can do, check out the current revision of the module ibibproc in CVS and install it as described in the README file. Below are shown two ways of getting started using ibibproc, one using ibibproc macros in LaTeX, and one for emulating BibTeX in LaTeX.

Simple LaTeX example

Download the example reference database file examples.xml and the sample LaTeX file ex-latex.tex.

Do the following to build the document:

$ latex ex-latex
$ ibibproc -b tex -f tex \
   --database examples.xml \
   --citation ex-latex.aux \
   --bblfile ex-latex.bbl
$ latex ex-latex

BibTeX emulation

Download the example reference database file examples.xml and the sample LaTeX file ex-bibtex.tex that uses BibTeX-style bibliography macros.

Do the following to build the document:

$ latex ex-bibtex
$ ibibproctex ex-bibtex
$ latex ex-bibtex