A BibTeX-compatible bibliography processor in Python
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Author: Andrey Golovizin
Requires Python: >=3.8
Classifiers
Development Status
- 4 - Beta
Environment
- Console
Intended Audience
- End Users/Desktop
Operating System
- OS Independent
Programming Language
- Python
- Python :: 3
Topic
- Text Processing :: Markup :: LaTeX
- Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
- Utilities
Synopsis
latex foo.tex pybtex foo.aux latex foo.tex latex foo.tex
Description
Pybtex reads citation information from a file and produces a formatted bibliography. BibTeX style files are supported. Alternatively it is possible to write styles in Python.
Pybtex currently understands the following bibliography formats:
BibTeX
BibTeXML
YAML-based format
The resulting bibliography may be output in one of the following formats (not supported by legacy BibTeX styles):
LaTeX
HTML
markdown
plain text
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