RIS2BIB(1)

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✨ RIS2BIB ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about ris2bib — a lil script whose whole entire job is converting RIS format files into BibTeX format files. she's giving translator, she's giving bilingual icon, she's lowkey carrying your bibliography on her back 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ris2bib <input.ris> <output.bib>

two arguments. that's it. in goes the RIS, out comes the BibTeX, no notes 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so ris2bib is a script that converts an RIS-format file into a PDF file. (yes bestie, that's literally what the page says, I'm just the messenger 🫣)

the conversion is a two step process, and honestly? it's giving relay race:

  1. the RIS-format file gets converted into an XML-format file first 🦋
  2. then that XML-format file gets converted into the BibTeX-format file 🎀

both of those utilities are shipped in the bibutils package, so they're riding with you the whole time, no cap.

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

/usr/share/cb2bib/c2btools/ris2bib

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

📚 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES TO BE CITED 📚

like, she cites her sources, obviously, she's not gonna be out here plagiarizing:

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

look at that formatting. immaculate. ⭐

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these too, bestie, they're the friend group:

the way they all match... it's giving ensemble cast 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Pere Constans <constans@molspaces.com> and Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>
    • Program authors. the actual masterminds. main character energy fr fr 🔥
  • Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>
    • Man-page author for the Debian distribution. wrote the very page you're reading, iconic behavior 💅
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). so like, it's Debian's, but she's generous, she shares 🫶

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 full lore, no gatekeeping here 💜

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's dated September 2009 and it's the ris2bib(1) manual — old but still absolutely serving ✨ 🎀 🦋 🌸 💅

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