BIB2PDF(1)

📦 version 2.0.3, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 BIB2PDF — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to bib2pdf(1), the little glow-up machine for your bibliography 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

bib2pdf — a script that converts BibTeX format files into PDF format files. that's it. that's the whole job. she does one thing and she eats 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bib2pdf <input.bib> <output.pdf>

two arguments, no notes. give her a .bib, she hands you a .pdf. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

so like, bib2pdf is a script, right, and what she does is take a BibTeX file and turn it into a PDF file. no cap. 🔥

but here's the lore of how she does it, because the pipeline is genuinely giving main character energy:

  1. First she creates a small LaTeX file, and into that file she inserts all the bibliographical records. every single one. she's thorough like that 💖
  2. Then that LaTeX file gets latex-compiled into a DVI file.
  3. And then that DVI file gets converted into a PDF file using dvipdfm.

and now the plot twist bestie — the script might be configured to use pdflatex instead of latex, in which case you get the PDF output file straight up with no extra conversion step. skipping a whole step? that's the vibe. she's efficient. periodt ✨

also, for the record: this script is part of the cb2bib package, and she lives at /usr/share/cb2bib/c2btools/bib2pdf. home sweet home 🏠💜

📚 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES TO BE CITED 📚

the receipts, the sources, the academic citations she's built on 🫶

  • P. Constans (2009) "A simple extraction procedure for bibliographical author field", arXiv:0902.0755.
  • P. Constans (2007) "Approximate textual retrieval", arXiv:0705.0751.

like, cite your sources or don't speak, yk? 😌

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read her friends, they're all part of the same friend group:

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

  • Pere Constans <constans@molspaces.com> and Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>
    • the program authors. the ones who built her. legends, fr fr 👑
  • Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>
    • man-page author for the Debian distribution. he wrote the page you're reading (well, the original one — I'm just the remix 💅)
Copyright © 2004-2008 Pere Constans Copyright © 2009,2017 Filippo Rusconi

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others). sharing is caring, bestie 🌈

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. on a Debian system the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3. go read it if you want the whole legal situation, it's lowkey a lot but it's important 🎀

and that's the whole page!! tysm for reading, she's from the cb2bib package, this version is dated September 2009, and yeah — that's BIB2PDF(1), slay, bye bestie 💖🦋✨

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