BIBTEX2HTML(1)

BIBTEX2HTML(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for BibTeX2HTML, from the General Commands Manual — and it's literally the glow-up your boring .bib file has been waiting for. buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

BibTeX2HTML — a translator of bibliography databases into HTML. yes, that's the whole job. it takes your dusty bibliography and makes it cute on the web. periodt 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bibtex2html [options] <filename>

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so bibtex2html is a translator, right? it reads a bibliography file and spits out two HTML documents:

• the first one has the cited bibliography in a nice presentation ✨
• the second one is the original BibTeX file, but augmented with several transparent HTML links so you can navigate around easily 🫶

that's it. that's the whole vibe.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

🎀 General aspect of the HTML document 🎀

• -t string, --title string — specify the title of the HTML file. the default is the file name, no cap.
• --header string — give an additional header for the HTML document.
• --footer string — give an additional footer for the HTML document.
• -s string, --style string — use BibTeX style string (plain, alpha, etc.). the default style is plain.
• -noabstract, --no-abstract — do not print the abstracts (if any). sad, but valid.
• -nokeywords, --no-keywords — do not print the keywords (if any).
• -both, --both — produce both pages, with and without abstracts. if the BibTeX file is foo.bib then the two pages will be respectively foo.html and foo_abstracts.html (the suffix may be different, see the option --suffix). links get inserted from the page without abstracts to the page with abstracts. iconic, honestly.
• -nokeys, --no-keys — do not print the cite keys.
• -use-keys, --use-keys — use the cite keys from the BibTeX input file (and not the ones generated by the BibTeX style file).
• -rawurl, --raw-url — print URLs instead of files' types.
• -heveaurl, --hevea-url — interpret the macro \url as HeVeA's one, i.e. with two arguments, the first one being the url and the second one the text to print. the default behavior is to interpret the macro \url as the one from the package url, which has only one argument (the url itself).
• -f field, --field field — add a web link for that BibTeX field.
• -nf field string, --named-field field string — similar to -f but specifies the way to display the link (e.g. -nf springer "At Springer's").
• -note field, --note field — declare that a field must be treated like the abstract field, i.e. is an annotation to be displayed as a text paragraph below the entry.
• -multiple, --multiple — make a separate web page for each entry. ⚠️ beware: this option produces as many HTML files as BibTeX entries!
• -single, --single — produce a single document, inserting each BibTeX entry (the input) right after its BibTeX output.
• -bg color, --background color — set the background color of the HTML file. default is none.
• -css file, --style-sheet file — set a style sheet file for the HTML document. default is none.
• -charset c, --charset c — specify the charset to use in the META tag of generated html files. the default is the output of the command locale charmap, or if this doesn't work, ISO-8859-1.
• -dl, --dl — use HTML DL lists instead of HTML tables to format entries.
• -unicode, --unicode — use Unicode entities for some macros, such as ⊨ for \models, etc.
• -html-entities, --html-entities — use HTML entities for some macros, such as ≈ for \approx, etc.

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🧚 Controlling the translation 🧚

• -m file, --macros-from file — read the LaTeX macros in the given file. 📌 note: bibtex2html does not handle macros arguments; arguments are simply discarded.
• -noexpand, --no-expand — do not expand the abbreviation strings, leave them in the output file.

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💜 Selecting the entries 💜

• -citefile filename, --citefile filename — select only keys appearing in filename. to be used manually or in conjonction with bib2bib.
• -e key, --exclude key — exclude an particular entry.

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⭐ Sorting the entries ⭐

• -d, --sort-by-date — sort by date.
• -a, --sort-as-bibtex — sort as BibTeX (usually by author).
• -u, --unsorted — unsorted i.e. same order as in .bib file (default).
• -r, --reverse-sort — reverse the sort.
• --revkeys — number entries in reverse order (i.e. from n to 1 in plain style).

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🌈 Miscellaneous options 🌈

• --print-keys — do not produce any HTML documents but write to stdout the sorted list of BibTeX keys (one key per line).
• -nodoc, --nodoc — do not produce a full HTML document but only its body (useful to merge the HTML bibliography in a bigger HTML document).
• -nobibsource, --nobibsource — do not produce the _bib.html file. in that case, no BibTeX entry links are inserted in the HTML file.
• -suffix string, --suffix string — give an alternate suffix string for both HTML files and links. default is .html.
• -fsuffix string, --file-suffix string — give an alternate suffix string for HTML files. default is .html.
• -lsuffix string, --link-suffix string — give an alternate suffix string for HTML links. default is .html.
• -o file, --output file — specifies the output file. if file is -, then the standard output is selected.
• -c command, --command command — specify the BibTeX command. default is bibtex -min-crossrefs=1000. may be useful for example if you need to specify the full path of the bibtex command.
• -i, --ignore-errors — ignore BibTeX errors.
• -q, --quiet — be quiet. 🤫
• -w, --warn-error — stop at the first warning.
• -h, --help — print a short usage and exit.
• -v, --version — print the version and exit.
• -noheader, --no-header — do not insert the bibtex2html command in the HTML document (default is to insert it as a comment at the beginning).

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Bibtex2html has been written by Jean-Christophe Filliâtre and Claude Marché. 🫶 this manpage has been compiled by Ralf Treinen from the original bibtex2html documentation. slay to all of them honestly 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• bib2bib(1), bibtex(1), hevea(1)
• http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/

for complete documentation, please check the bibtex2html manual. on a Debian system the manual can be found at /usr/share/doc/bibtex2html both in the formats postscript and HTML, or via the Debian help system. iykyk 💅

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and that's the whole page bestie — from the General Commands Manual, BIBTEX2HTML(1), no date on it, just the classic manpage tag. go forth and make your bibliographies cute 🌸✨