ctanbib (1) - Linux Manuals

ctanbib: retrieve bibliographic information for packages hosted on CTAN.

Command to display ctanbib manual in Linux: $ man 1 ctanbib

NAME

ctanbib - retrieve bibliographic information for packages hosted on CTAN.

SYNOPSIS

ctanbib <options> [package name]

DESCRIPTION

This command can retrieve bibliographic information for TeX packages hosted on CTAN in the BibTeX format.

OPTIONS

-c,--ctan: use @ctan type instead of @manual. The difference between the two is that the url field contains package CTAN path, instead of link to the package.
-C,--CTAN: like --ctan option, but use original url instead of CTAN path.
-h,--help: print the help message.
-v,--version: print the version info.

EXAMPLES

$ ctanbib latex

This invocation will print data in the BibLaTeX format to the standard output:

@manual{latex,
title = {The Latex package},
subtitle = {A TeX macro package that defines LaTeX},
author = {Lamport, Leslie and The LaTeX Team},
url = {http://www.latex-project.org/},
urldate = {2018-08-23}, 
date = {2018-04-01},
version = {PL 5}
}

The --ctan option:

$ ctanbib -c hyperref

This produces bib record with the @ctan type:

@ctan{hyperref,
title = {The Hyperref package},
subtitle = {Extensive support for hypertext in LaTeX},
author = {Rahtz, Sebastian and Oberdiek, Heiko},
url = {/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref},
urldate = {2018-08-27}, 
date = {},
version = {6.86b}
}

BUGS

No known bugs.

AUTHOR

Michal Hoftich (michal.h21 [at] gmail.com)

LICENSE

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this software under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3.