[OS X TeX] Database Utility for Bibtex Databases

[mark oilcan]

--- Frederick Hoyt <fmhoyt at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone can help me locate a tool for managing bibtex
> 
> databases.
> 
> I am looking for a program which will allow me to the following:
> 
> (i) 	Search a bibtex database, returning a list of entries, and then 
> export/print this list of results as a .bib file.
> 
> (ii)	Define subsets of a database
> 
> In generally, what I'm trying to do is have one big bibtex database, 
> for which I can define task/project/discipline-specific subsets, and 
> which I can use for generating smaller .bib files on the fly.
> 

Sounds like a job for bibtool. There is an i-installer package for it,
but it is a command line utility. Documentation and the source code can
be found here:
http://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool.en.html

MarkA


		
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