[tex-live] bibtex tools in TL
Lars Madsen
daleif at imf.au.dk
Thu May 31 15:37:49 CEST 2007
Karl Berry :
> Hi Lars,
>
> why aren't tools like bibextract and bibtool present in TL?
>
> 1) Including any new nontrivial program (unlike packages) is a
> time-consuming manual process, and there are not enough hours in the day.
>
> 2) It is necessary to support srcdir!=builddir to be included in the TL
> source tree, at least without forcing extra-special painful hacks (see 1).
>
> Although Thomas and Sebastian wrote a bunch of teTeX/TL Makefile.in's
> for various utilities years ago, there's nobody actively pursuing such
> things now. It's hard enough for me to keep them up to date (not that I
> entirely succeed).
>
> If you (or anyone) have the energy to integrate the programs into TL and
> hopefully send the patches back to the authors, that would be great.
>
> as far as I know both are GPL'ed.
>
> Yep, licensing is not the problem.
>
> karl
>
ok, I was just woundering, since those tools were mentioned in the LaTeX
Companion, but they were not widely available.
I ended up recommending japref i stedet, which might be a lot easier for
Winows users to use, and is easy to install being Java based.
I don't know anything about C programming or writing Makefiles etc. I know
how to compile something from source but that is it.
I usually work in Perl.
/daleif
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