pybtex-format(1)

✨ pybtex-format(1) ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pybtex-format — formats a bibliography database as human-readable text 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pybtex-format [ options ] in_filename out_filename

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So like, pybtex-format formats a bibliography database as human-readable text. that's the whole vibe. she takes your database and makes it readable, periodt ✨

💅 GENERAL OPTONS 💅

(yeah the heading says "OPTONS", that's canon, we don't fix it, we respect the lore 🙈)

• --version — shows the program's version number and dips 👋
• -h, --help — shows this help message and exits, your lil map 🗺️
• --strict — turns warnings into errors. highkey, no more gentle nudges — everything's a whole situation now 😭
• -f FORMAT, --bibliography-format=FORMAT — the bibliography format (bibtex, bibtexml, yaml)
• -b BACKEND, --output-backend=BACKEND — the output backend (html, latex, markdown, plaintext)
• --min-crossrefs=NUMBER — includes an item after NUMBER crossrefs; default is 2 🫶
• --keyless-bibtex-entries — allows BibTeX entries with no keys, and generates unnamed-<number> keys for them. iconic, honestly 👑
• -s STYLE, --style=STYLE — the bibliography formatting style

⭐ PYTHONIC STYLE OPTIONS ⭐

• --label-style=STYLE — label formatting style (alpha, number)
• --name-style=STYLE — name formatting style (lastfirst, plain)
• --sorting-style=STYLE — sorting style (author_year_title, none)
• --abbreviate-names — uses the abbreviated name formatting style 🙈

🌈 ENCODING OPTIONS 🌈

• -e ENCODING, --encoding=ENCODING — the default encoding
• --input-encoding=ENCODING — encoding for the input
• --output-encoding=ENCODING — encoding for the output

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

literally nothing listed here bestie. the void. an empty group chat. 🫥 (no cap — the original page has this section and it's empty, so here we are)

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