ctanbib(1)                     ctanbib man page                     ctanbib(1)

NAME
       ctanbib - retrieve bibliographic information for packages hosted on
       CTAN.

SYNOPSIS
       ctanbib <options> [package name]

DESCRIPTION
       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}
       }


See also
       See ctanbib-doc.pdf for more details

BUGS
       No known bugs.

AUTHOR
       Michal Hoftich (michal.h21@gmail.com)

LICENSE
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this software
       under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3.


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