MED2BIB(1)

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

💖 med2bib(1) — the glow-up your Pubmed files have been waiting for 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because this is the manual page for med2bib and she is that girl. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

med2bib — a script that converts Pubmed format files into BibTeX format files. no cap. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

med2bib <input.med> <output.bib>

literally that's it. two files. in and out. periodt. 💅

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

so here's the tea ☕: med2bib is a script that converts a Pubmed-format file into a BibTeX-format file. it's giving translator, it's giving bilingual icon.

the conversion is a two step process, bestie, pay attention:

  1. the Pubmed-format file is first converted into an XML-format file
  2. that XML-format file is in turn converted into the BibTeX-format file

and the plot twist? both of those utilities are shipped in the bibutils package. so it's a collab. 🤝✨

this script is part of the cb2bib package, and she lives at:

/usr/share/cb2bib/c2btools/med2bib

that's her address. that's where she stays. 🏠💜

📚 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES TO BE CITED 📚

if you're citing this (and you should, she ate), here's the receipts 🧾:

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

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read her friends, they're all iconic too:

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org> — basing the writing on previous work by Pere Constans <constans@molspaces.com>.

that second line is a sub-credit situation, and it means: Program and man page (for the Debian distribution) author.

Copyright © 2009,2017 Filippo Rusconi

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

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.

⚠️ real talk for a sec: that copyright + license block is legally load-bearing. don't be out here deleting it, bestie. keep it, always. 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie — written back in September 2009 for the MED2BIB(1) manual, still serving looks today. mwah. 💋🌈⭐

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