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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• aux2bib
• bib2bib
• bibtex2html

Projektgeschichte

The official project page credits Jean-Christophe Filliatre and Claude Marche as authors and describes BibTeX2HTML as a collection of tools for translating BibTeX to HTML.

The changelog dates the first public release, version 0.1, to July 1997, followed by a rapid sequence of 0.x releases that added multiple bibliographies, online documentation, abstract handling, long options, macro translation, and filtering.

By version 1.0 in July 1999, BibTeX2HTML had become a practical publication-list generator with bib2bib filtering, footer control, citation-file support, macro handling, and BibTeX output preservation.

Adoptionsgeschichte

BibTeX2HTML became useful in the early web era because academics already maintained BibTeX files and needed HTML publication pages without manually duplicating bibliography data.

The official home page points to Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris distribution artifacts or ports, showing long-lived cross-platform packaging beyond the original source release.

Wie es verwendet wird

The manual describes three command-line tools: bibtex2html for translating a .bib file into HTML, bib2bib for filtering bibliography entries by criteria, and aux2bib for extracting entries referenced by a LaTeX .aux file.

Typical users generate publication pages, add links from fields such as url, ps, and abstract, sort entries by dates or authors, and use bib2bib to select subsets of a bibliography.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

BibTeX2HTML is package-nerd significant as a surviving 1990s Unix-style academic publishing tool: an OCaml CLI that bridges BibTeX, BibTeX styles, LaTeX-era metadata, and static HTML publication pages.

Its history also shows why package managers kept small bibliography converters around: they are glue tools for reproducible academic websites, not large applications.

Zeitleiste

• 1997-07-17: Version 0.1 is marked as the first public release.
• 1998-11-18: Version 0.7 adds online documentation and long options.
• 1999-07-15: Version 1.0 adds fuller bib2bib filtering and publication-page features.
• 2008-07-08: Version 1.92 adds a Windows installer and cross-reference expansion.
• 2014-07-04: Version 1.98 fixes URL escaping and improves macro translation.
• 2018-03-23: Version 1.99 updates safety around string use and requires OCaml 4.03 or newer.

Related projects

• BibTeX is the source bibliography format and external processor that BibTeX2HTML builds around.
• HeVeA is listed by the project as a related LaTeX-to-HTML tool.
• bib2bib and aux2bib are companion tools distributed with BibTeX2HTML.

Quellen

• https://github.com/backtracking/bibtex2html/blob/master/CHANGES
• https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/~jcf/bibtex2html/doc/manual.html
• https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/~jcf/bibtex2html/index.en.html