[texhax] Re: BibTeX syntax software

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Eduardo Klein <eklein at usb.ve> writes on Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:26:54 -0400:

>> Does anybody can recommend a stand alone program to check the syntax of 
>> the bibtex bib files, for win32?

Yes: please see these papers:

@Article{Beebe:1993:BPS,
  author =       "Nelson H. F. Beebe",
  title =        "Bibliography prettyprinting and syntax checking",
  journal =      j-TUGboat,
  volume =       "14",
  number =       "4",
  pages =        "395--419",
  month =        dec,
  year =         "1993",
  ISSN =         "0896-3207",
  bibdate =      "Sat Aug 16 14:27:40 2003",
  bibsource =    "ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/b/beebe.bib;
                 http://tug.org/tugboat/",
}

@Article{Beebe:2004:BT,
  author =       "Nelson H. F. Beebe",
  title =        "A Bibliographer's Toolbox",
  journal =      j-TUGboat,
  volume =       "25",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "89--104",
  year =         "2004",
  ISSN =         "0896-3207",
  bibdate =      "Fri Jul 02 05:09:03 2004",
  note =         "Presented at Practical \TeX{} '2004, Training and
                 Techniques Workshops and Presentations on \LaTeX{},
                 \TeX{}, Con\TeX{}t, AMS-\LaTeX{} July 19--22, 2004,
                 Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco,
                 California",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}

They are also available electronically at links from

	http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/publications/

All of the software is freely available, and can be found via links
from my software page:

	http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/

The software is written in highly-portable C, and some in awk.  For
the latter, there are at least four implementations available, and
most will build just fine in a command-line environment on Microsoft
Windows.  If you have cygwin installed, then you already have a
Unix-like environment on Windows that makes package installation
simple: for details on cygwin and other options, see

	http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/gnu-on-windows.html

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