.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH JABREF 1 "March 16, 2008" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME jabref \- graphical frontend to manage BibTeX databases .SH SYNOPSIS .B jabref [options] [bibtex\-file] .SH DESCRIPTION .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. \fBjabref\fP is a graphical frontend to manage BibTeX databases, the standard LaTeX bibliography reference format. JabRef is build to be platform independent (requires Java 1.5 or newer). It merges and extends the functionalities of BibKeeper (Morten O. Alver) and JBibtexManager (Nizar Batada) .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output\fR= Output or export file: filename[,export format] .TP \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-primp\fR= Import preferences from file .TP \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-fetch\fR= Run Fetcher, e.g. "\-\-fetch=Medline:cancer" .TP \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nogui\fR= No GUI. Only process command line options. .TP \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-aux\fR= Subdatabase from aux: file[.aux],new[.bib] .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR= Display help on command line options .TP \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-blank\fR= Do not open any files at startup .TP \fB\-\-importToOpen\fR= Import to open tab .TP \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-import\fR= Import file: filename[,import format] .TP \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-nosplash\fR= Do not show splash window at startup .TP \fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-prexp\fR= Export preferences to file .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR= Display version .TP \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-loads\fR= Load session .SH JAVA-WRAPPERS NOTE This program is a shell script wrapper based on .BR java-wrappers (7). You therefore benefit from several features; please see the .BR java-wrappers (7) manual page for more information about them. .SH SEE ALSO the included help .br http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ .br .BR java-wrappers (7) .SH AUTHOR jabref was written by Morten O. Alver and Nizar Batada. .PP This manual page was written by gregor herrmann , for the Debian project (but may be used by others).