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5 .TH JABREF 1 "June 30, 2007"
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19 jabref \- graphical frontend to manage BibTeX databases
21 .B jabref [options] [bibtex\-file]
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26 \fBjabref\fP is a graphical frontend to manage BibTeX databases, the
27 standard LaTeX bibliography reference format. JabRef is build to be
28 platform independent (requires Java 1.4.2 or newer). It merges and extends
29 the functionalities of BibKeeper (Morten O. Alver) and JBibtexManager
33 \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-primp\fR=<STRING>
34 Import preferences from file
36 \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output\fR=<STRING>
37 Output or export file: filename[,export format]
39 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR=<BOOLEAN>
40 Displays version information
42 \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-aux\fR=<STRING>
43 Subdatabase from aux: file[.aux],new[.bib]
45 \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nogui\fR=<BOOLEAN>
46 No GUI. Only process command line options
48 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR=<BOOLEAN>
49 Display help on command line options
51 \fB\-\-importToOpen\fR=<STRING>
54 \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-blank\fR=<BOOLEAN>
55 Do not open any files at startup
57 \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-import\fR=<STRING>
58 Import file: filename[,import format]
60 \fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-prexp\fR=<STRING>
61 Export preferences to file
63 \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-loads\fR=<BOOLEAN>
66 \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-nosplash\fR=<BOOLEAN>
67 Do not show splash window at startup
71 http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
73 jabref was written by Morten O. Alver and Nizar Batada.
75 This manual page was written by gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at>,
76 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).