pybtex-convert(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

pybtex-convert — convert between bibliography database formats. This is the Pybtex manual page, bestie, and we are about to make bibliography conversion feel like a group-chat glow-up 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pybtex-convert [ options ] in_filename out_filename

So you pass it an input file and an output file, plus whatever options you need. Slay.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

pybtex-convert converts bibliography database files between the supported formats — currently BibTeX, BibTeXML and YAML. That's the whole assignment, and it ate 💅

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💅 GENERAL OPTONS 💅

Yes, the heading says “OPTONS” in the original, and we are keeping that energy. Canon. 🎀

• --version — show the program’s version number and exit.
• -h, --help — show this help message and exit.
• --strict — turn warnings into errors. No soft-launching those warnings, bestie.
• -f FORMAT, --from=FORMAT — input format. The values are bibtex, bibtexml, and yaml.
• -t FORMAT, --to=FORMAT — output format. The values are bibtex, bibtexml, and yaml.
• --keyless-bibtex-entries — allow BibTeX entries without keys and generate unnamed-<number> keys for them.
• --preserve-case — do not convert identifiers to lower case.

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🔐 ENCODING OPTIONS 🔐

• -e ENCODING, --encoding=ENCODING — default encoding.
• --input-encoding=ENCODING — input encoding. That’s the line, and I’m not inventing extra lore about it 👑
• --output-encoding=ENCODING — output encoding. Same deal: ENCODING is the whole moment.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Okay so this section is literally empty in the original — no cross-references listed at all. That’s the vibe. 💀

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Source/version: Pybtex. Date: not shown in this page footer, so no fake date from me, bestie. Mwah 🫶💖