BIB2GLS(1) bib2gls BIB2GLS(1)

bib2gls [option]+ auxfile

bib2gls is designed to work with the glossaries-extra LaTeX package. (The record package option is required.) The application performs two functions in one: (1) selects entries from .bib files according to information found in the auxfile (similar to bibtex); (2) hierarchically sorts entries and collates location lists (similar to makeindex and xindy). The .aux extension may be omitted from auxfile.

The auxfile (and corresponding .log file) should either be in the current directory or in the directory specified by --dir. Bib files can either be relative to the directory the auxfile is in or in a location that can be found by kpsewhich.

Interpret "~" (tilde) character and "\nobreakspace" as a normal space.
Treat "\citation" as an ignored record.
Collapse an explicit range that has a duplicate start and end location into a normal record (default).
Instruct the TeX parser library to attempt to parse the packages listed in list. This is intended for simple custom packages that don't contain complex code.
The header comment at the start of the .glstex file will include the file modification date.
Switch on the debug mode at the given setting n, which should be a non-negative integer. If n is 0 then the debug mode is switched off. If omitted, n is set to 1, which corresponds to --debug-mode io. Any positive number will enable all of bib2gls's debugging messages. The amount of TeX Parser Library debugging messages depends on bitwise operation of n.
May be used instead of --debug where the level number is difficult to remember. The setting may be a comma-separated list of any of the keywords:
Highest level (likely to result in a large transcript file). Equivalent to switching on all settings.
TeX Parser category code changes.
TeX Parser command definitions.
TeX Parser declarations.
TeX Parser expansions (may result in a large transcript file).
TeX Parser stack expansions (may result in a large transcript file).
TeX Parser one-level expansions.
TeX Parser one-level list expansions.
TeX Parser I/O operations (open, close and fetch token).
TeX Parser stack popping.
TeX Parser macro process (may result in a large transcript file).
TeX Parser generic command process.
TeX Parser stack process (may result in a large transcript file).
TeX Parser detailed stack process (may result in a large transcript file).
TeX Parser codepoint read from file (likely to result in a large transcript file).
TeX Parser data (typically relates to internal objects that don't have an analogous TeX macro). This includes data gathered from the aux file.

For example: "bib2gls --debug-mode io,catcode,sty-data mydoc"

Set the default character encoding for input and output files. If omitted, the JVM default encoding is assumed.
Files are relative to directory. (This doesn't change the current working directory.)
Don't write "\glsnoexpandfields" to the .glstex file.
Force cross-resource referencing mode on.
Add group field to entries.
Display help message and exit.
Don't parse the log file for the packages listed in list. Note that --packages overrides this option, so if the same package is listed in both --ignore-packages and --packages then the interpreter will check if it's supported. This option has a cumulative action. Only known packages may be included in list.
Use the TeX Parser Library to interpret known (La)TeX commands (default).
Lists all the packages that have are known to the TeX parser library and then exits (with exit code 0). Any of the listed packages may be used in --packages or --ignore-packages.
Use language resource file for lang (which should be an IETF locale tag).
Set the character encoding for the log files (which may not be the same as the encoding for the document LaTeX files).
Set the transcript file.
Rule for merging locations created with the record=nameref package option (requires glossaries-extra.sty version 1.37+). The rule may be one of: hcounter, href, title or location.
Merge an entry's wrglossary records for the same page locations. (For use with the indexcounter package option.)
Switch on the auto-insertion of an empty group for math-shift ("$").

If mfirstuc v2.08+, glossaries v4.50+ and glossaries-extra v1.49+ are detected, the default will be --no-mfirstuc-math-protection as there should no longer be any need for this protection.

Insert an empty group if fields start with certain problematic commands to protect against case-changing commands like "\Gls".

The default is to do this for all fields. To do this for only a subset of fields, set fields to a comma-separated list of fields (e.g. name,short,long). The keyword all indicates all fields.

If mfirstuc v2.08+, glossaries v4.50+ and glossaries-extra v1.49+ are detected, the default will be --no-mfirstuc-protection as there should no longer be any need for this protection.

Check each field listed in list for potentially problematic nested link text. (Default list: name, text, plural, first, firstplural, short, shortplural, long, longplural, symbol).

If none, disable check.

Interpret "~" (tilde) and "\nobreakspace" as a non-breaking space (default).
Don't check for instances of "\citation" in the .aux file (default).
Don't collapse an explicit range that has a duplicate start and end location into a normal record.
The header comment at the start of the .glstex file will not include the file modification date (default).
Switch off debug mode. (Equivalent to --debug 0)
Write "\glsnoexpandfields" to the .glstex file (default).
Don't force cross-resource referencing mode on (default).
Don't add group field to entries (default).
Don't try interpreting (La)TeX commands. The TeX Parser Library will still be used to parse the aux and bib files.
Don't merge an entry's wrglossary records.
Switch off the auto-insertion of an empty group for math-shift ("$").
Switch off the auto-insertion of an empty group for all fields.
Don't check for potentially problematic nested link text. (Equivalent to --nested-link-check none)
Ignore category code changing commands encountered in the aux file.
Don't write "\provideignoredglossary*" to the .glstex file to provide unknown glossaries except in documented situations (master, secondary and trigger-type resource options). This setting is the default.
Don't add record count field to entries (default). This option automatically implements --no-record-count-unit.
Don't add unit record count field to entries (default).
Don't replace quote characters (default).
Normal location merging rules apply (default).
Text superscript ("\textsuperscript") or subscripts ("\textsubscript") won't be converted to Unicode superscript/subscript characters. For example, "\textsuperscript{2}" will be converted to "<sup>2</sup>" and the markup will be stripped leaving just the character 2.
Don't trim leading and trailing spaces from fields (default). This option cancels --trim-only-fields and --trim-fields.
Switch off verbose mode. (Some messages will still be written to STDOUT.)
Don't warn if internal non-bib fields are found in the .bib file. The use of these internal fields can cause unexpected results, so only use this option if you have taken appropriate precautions.
Don't warn if any unknown entry types are found in the .bib file.
Obey known category code changing commands encountered in the aux file.
Instruct the TeX parser library to pretend the packages listed in list have been used by the document. Note that there's only a limited number of packages supported by the TeX parser library. This option has a cumulative action so --packages wasysym,pifont is the same as --packages wasysym --packages pifont.

You can find out the list of supported packages with --list-known-packages.

Write "\provideignoredglossary*" to the .glstex file to provide unknown glossaries.
Only display error messages. All other messages are just written to the transcript file.
Add record count fields to entries.
Sets the rule used by --record-count and --record-count-unit. This option automatically implements --record-count.

The rule may be: "all" or "a" (count all records), "non-ignored" or "n" (count all non-ignored records), "f/"regex"/" (only count records where the format matches the regular expression regex), "c/"regex"/" (only count records where the counter name matches the regular expression regex), or "f/"regex1"/c/"regex2"/"op (only count records where the format matches the regular expression regex1 and/or the counter name matches the regular expression regex2). The op part is optional. If present it may be one of: "and" (format AND counter must match), "or" (format OR counter must match). If op is omitted, AND is assumed.

Add unit record count fields to entries. This option automatically implements --record-count.
Replace single and double quote characters ("'" and """) with "\bibglsaposchar" and "\bibglsdoublequotechar" in field values and group information written to the .glstex file.
Indicates which location formats should always be retained even if it causes a partial duplicate. Only exact duplicates will be merged.
Check for the shortcut commands when searching for dependencies. Permitted values of option: acronyms (or acro), ac, abbreviations (or abbr), all (or true), none (or false). This overrides the setting given in auxfile.
Set location format mappings.
Only display error messages. All other messages are just written to the transcript file. (Synonym of --quiet.)
Text superscript ("\textsuperscript") or subscripts ("\textsubscript") will use Unicode superscript/subscript characters if available. For example, "\textsuperscript{2}" will be converted to U+00B2 (superscript two).
Set the character encoding for the glstex files. This overrides the setting given in auxfile.
Trim leading and trailing spaces from all fields except those listed. This option is cumulative but is cancelled by --trim-fields and --no-trim-fields. This option may not be used with --trim-only-fields.
Trim leading and trailing spaces from all fields. This option cancels --trim-only-fields and --no-trim-fields.
Trim leading and trailing spaces from only the listed fields. This option is cumulative but is cancelled by --trim-fields and --no-trim-fields. This option may not be used with --trim-except-fields.
Switch on verbose mode.
Display version information and exit.
Warn if internal non-bib fields are found in the .bib file.
Warn if any unknown entry types are found in the .bib file.

Java 8 or later and a TeX distribution.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

The bib2gls manual:

texdoc bib2gls

The glossaries-extra manual:

texdoc glossaries-extra

The glossaries manual:

texdoc glossaries

Nicola L. C. Talbot, https://www.dickimaw-books.com/

2024-01-30 perl v5.36.3