ctanbib1

Usage

Overview

This command can retrieve bibliographic information for TeX packages hosted on CTAN in the BibTeX format.

Look up the Catalogue entry for each PKGNAME on CTAN (at https://ctan.org/xml/2.0/pkg/PKGNAME), and convert relevant information to a BibTeX entry.

By default, the url field in the output entry is the package's home field value if that is specified in the Catalogue entry; if it isn't, https://ctan.org/pkg/PKGNAME is used.

Options

-c,--ctan

Always use CTAN /pkg/ url instead of the package homepage

-C,--CTAN

Use the package's CTAN path as url (e.g.: /support/ctanbib)

-e,--entrytype

(default manual) Change entry type

-h,--help

print the help message.

-p,--pkgname

Wrap the package name in a tanbibpkgname command This command can be redefined in the document for the desired formatting.

-v,--version

print the version info.

Examples

$ ctanbib latex

This invocation will print data in the BibLaTeX format to the standard output:

@manual{latex,
  title = {The Latex package},
  subtitle = {A TeX macro package that defines LaTeX},
  author = {Lamport, Leslie and The LaTeX Team},
  url = {http://www.latex-project.org/},
  urldate = {2018-08-23}, 
  date = {2018-04-01},
  version = {PL 5}
}

The --ctan option:

$ ctanbib -c hyperref

This produces bib record with the @ctan type:

@ctan{hyperref,
title = {The Hyperref package},
subtitle = {Extensive support for hypertext in LaTeX},
author = {Rahtz, Sebastian and Oberdiek, Heiko},
url = {/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref},
urldate = {2018-08-27}, 
date = {},
version = {6.86b}
}