NAME¶
nbibfind - find bibliography entries for BibTeX or NbibTeX
SYNOPSIS¶
nbibfind [
-terse|
-full|
-bib]
query
[
bibname...]
DESCRIPTION¶
nbibfind searches for BibTeX entries using the same query algorithm as
NbibTeX. If the optional list of
bibnames is given, it searches only
those bibliographies; otherwise, it searches all bibliographies on the user's
BIBINPUTS (or on the standard system path). The language of
query is
that of
nbibtex(1).
OPTIONS¶
- -terse
- Print a one-line summary of each matched entry (the default).
- -full
- Print a longer summary of each matched entry, including full authors,
year, and title, possibly spread over multiple lines.
- -bib
- Print each entry in a form suitable for including in a .bib
file.
EXAMPLES¶
nbibfind author=knuth:series=art-programming:volume=2
nbibfind knuth:seminumerical personal.bib
nbibfind harper-moggi:phase
nbibfind :essence-algol
nbibfind :essence-functional
QUERY LANGUAGE¶
The query language is that of
nbibtex(1).
A query consists of a sequence of one or more
constraints separated by
colons. A constraint may be empty.
A nonempty constraint is of the form
key=words, where
key is the name of a field in the NbibTeX entry and
words is a
sequence of one or more words separated by dashes. The contraint is satisfied
if every word in
words is found in the field named by
key. (The
key may also be
[type], which matches agains the type of the
entry, or
*, which looks for
words in
any field.)
As a convenience, keys may be defaulted in up to three constraints. In the first
constraint, the default key is
author. In the second constraint, the
default key is
year if
words is all digits, and is
title
otherwise. In the third constraint, the default key is
year if
words is all digits, and is
[type] otherwise.
To match a word in
words,
nbibfind uses the Boyer-Moore
string-matching algorithm, so longer words are usually faster.
ENVIRONMENT¶
For
.bib files,
nbibfind uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable
if that is set, otherwise the default. For details of the searching, see
tex(1) and
kpsewhich(1).
SEE ALSO¶
nbibtex(1),
latex(1),
tex(1),
kpsewhich(1),
bibtex(1).
Leslie Lamport,
LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley,
1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.
AUTHOR¶
Norman Ramsey, Harvard University.