ctanbib - Man Page

ctanbib <options> [package name]

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.

-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 ctanbibpkgname command This command can be redefined in the document for the desired formatting.

-v,--version

print the version info.

$ 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 ctanbib-doc.pdf for more details

No known bugs.

Michal Hoftich (michal.h21@gmail.com)

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