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5 .TH JABREF 1 "September 12, 2009"
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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 1.5 or newer). It merges and extends
29 the functionalities of BibKeeper (Morten O. Alver) and JBibtexManager
33 \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output\fR=<STRING>
34 Output or export file: filename[,export format]
36 \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-primp\fR=<STRING>
37 Import preferences from file
39 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-fetch\fR=<STRING>
40 Run Fetcher, e.g. "\-\-fetch=Medline:cancer"
42 \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nogui\fR=<BOOLEAN>
43 No GUI. Only process command line options.
45 \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-aux\fR=<STRING>
46 Subdatabase from aux: file[.aux],new[.bib]
48 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR=<BOOLEAN>
49 Display help on command line options
51 \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-blank\fR=<BOOLEAN>
52 Do not open any files at startup
54 \fB\-\-importToOpen\fR=<STRING>
57 \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-import\fR=<STRING>
58 Import file: filename[,import format]
60 \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-nosplash\fR=<BOOLEAN>
61 Do not show splash window at startup
63 \fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-prexp\fR=<STRING>
64 Export preferences to file
66 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR=<BOOLEAN>
69 \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-loads\fR=<BOOLEAN>
71 .SH JAVA-WRAPPERS NOTE
72 This program is a shell script wrapper based on
73 .BR java-wrappers (7).
74 You therefore benefit from several features; please see the
76 manual page for more information about them.
80 http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
84 jabref was written by Morten O. Alver and Nizar Batada.
86 This manual page was written by gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at>,
87 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).