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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 Java application for editing bibtex (.bib)
27 databases. JabRef lets you organize your entries into overlapping
28 logical groups, and with a single click limit your view to a single
29 group or an intersection or union of several groups. You can customize
30 the entry information shown in the main window, and sort by any of the
31 standard Bibtex fields. JabRef can autogenerate bibtex keys for your
32 entries. JabRef also lets you easily link to PDF or web sources for your
35 JabRef can import from and export to several formats, and you can
36 customize export filters. JabRef can be run as a command line application
37 to convert from any import format to any export format.
40 \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output\fR=<STRING>
41 Output or export file: filename[,export format]
43 \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-primp\fR=<STRING>
44 Import preferences from file
46 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-fetch\fR=<STRING>
47 Run Fetcher, e.g. "\-\-fetch=Medline:cancer"
49 \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nogui\fR=<BOOLEAN>
50 No GUI. Only process command line options.
52 \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-aux\fR=<STRING>
53 Subdatabase from aux: file[.aux],new[.bib]
55 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR=<BOOLEAN>
56 Display help on command line options
58 \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-blank\fR=<BOOLEAN>
59 Do not open any files at startup
61 \fB\-\-importToOpen\fR=<STRING>
64 \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-import\fR=<STRING>
65 Import file: filename[,import format]
67 \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-nosplash\fR=<BOOLEAN>
68 Do not show splash window at startup
70 \fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-prexp\fR=<STRING>
71 Export preferences to file
73 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR=<BOOLEAN>
76 \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-loads\fR=<BOOLEAN>
78 .SH JAVA-WRAPPERS NOTE
79 This program is a shell script wrapper based on
80 .BR java-wrappers (7).
81 You therefore benefit from several features; please see the
83 manual page for more information about them.
87 http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
91 jabref was written by Morten O. Alver and Nizar Batada.
93 This manual page was written by gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at>,
94 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).