$Id: README,v 1.3 2002/08/31 17:46:42 potse Exp $
	
BIBFROB
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This is a collection of (Perl) programs that operate on BibTeX
database files (.bib files).

 * aha2bib     Converts American Heart Assoctiation abstract
               (persist.ini) to BibTeX format.
 
 * bdb	       BibTeX wrapper that is useful when databases are
               converted to things that are not used by LaTeX

 * bibkeys     Adds cite keys to a .bib file. This is useful with
               .bib files generated by Reference Manager using 
               bibtex.os, which may not have useful cite keys.

 * ovid2bib    Converts ovid format to BibTeX format

 * printbib    Convert .bib file to .dvi for printing. Shows also the
               cite-keys. 

 * refman/     A collection of Reference Manager (winRM) output styles
               that can be used to generate a .bib file from a winRM
               database by winRM itself. The output style format seems
               to vary between versions of winRM, and it is not
               self-identifying. Therefore I don't know which .os file
               is for which version of winRM; I only know that
               bibtex_rm8.os works with winRM version 8. If your
               version of winRM is not supported by the set provided
               here, you can use winRM's output style editor to write
               your own bibtex.os. You can use the text version of the
               bibtex output style in bibtex_os.txt to copy and paste
               the descriptions for all types one by one.
	       
 * fakebib     Creates fake bibliography entries from .blg files.


Some of the programs may depend on the Text::BibTeX Perl module:

   HOME:   http://starship.python.net/~gward/btOOL/

   CTAN:   http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/btOOL/

   CPAN:    search on http://search.cpan.org