BibTeX formatter
Project description
tidybib
A BibTeX formatter, written in Python
The tidybib
command takes BibTeX input files and reformats their contents.
There is no configuration; everyone gets the same boring output.
Installation
Install tidybib
with pip:
pip install tidybib
Alternatively, you can run tidybib
using pipx
without installation:
pipx run tidybib
Usage
Run tidybib
on BibTex files main.bib
and aux.bib
:
tidybib main.bib aux.bib
After the command has run, the contents of main.bib
and aux.bib
have been
reformatted in place. Copies of the original files are kept under
main.bib.untidy
and aux.bib.untidy
-- these will be overwritten the next
time tidybib
runs on changed input files.
You can also run tidybib
on standard input:
cat main.bib aux.bib | tidybib
This will produce the formatted contents on standard output, and no files are changed.
Pre-commit hook
This repository contains a pre-commit hook to
automatically run tidybib
when committing BibTeX files with git. To use the
hook, add this to the repos
list in your .pre-commit-config.yaml
file:
- repo: https://github.com/ntessore/tidybib
rev: v0.1.3
hooks:
- id: tidybib
Acknowledgements
All of the hard work of extracting a grammar and parser from the BibTeX source code was done by aclements/biblib.
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