bibtool
BibTool is a tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases. BibTeX provides a mean to integrate citations into LaTeX documents. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities -- and intentions -- of BibTeX. (by ge-ne)
betterbib
:green_book: Command-line tools for bibliographies. (by texworld)
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| bibtool | betterbib | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 192 | 805 | |
| - | 0.5% | |
| 0.0 | 2.8 | |
| 7 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
bibtool
Posts with mentions or reviews of bibtool.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.
betterbib
Posts with mentions or reviews of betterbib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.
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BibTeX Tidy
I find formatting is usually a nonissue with BibTeX files as entries tend to already be automatically generated from some authoritative source (e.g., CrossRef).
What I do end up using a lot however is nschloe's betterbib [1].
[1] https://github.com/nschloe/betterbib
- Nschloe/betterbib: Update BibTeX files with info from online resources
- betterbib
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bibtool and betterbib you can also consider the following projects:
writegood-mode - Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing
zotero-better-bibtex - Make Zotero effective for us LaTeX holdouts
biblint - BibLint -- a system for fixing bibtex databases
rebiber - A simple tool to update bib entries with their official information (e.g., DBLP or the ACL anthology).
allmytexs
bibclean - A parser to clean BibTeX output from reference management software such as Mendeley, EndNote and Zotero.
jabref - Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases
.config - NeoVim configuration optimized for writing in LaTeX