BIBCLEAN 1 "09 May 1998" "Version 2.11.4" [section 3 of 12]

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DESCRIPTION

bibclean prettyprints input BibTeX files to stdout, and checks the brace balance and bibliography entry syntax as well. It can be used to detect problems in BibTeX files that sometimes confuse even BibTeX itself, and importantly, can be used to normalize the appearance of collections of BibTeX files.

Here is a summary of the formatting actions:

The standardized format of the output of bibclean facilitates the later application of simple filters, such as bibcheck(1), bibdup(1), bibextract(1), bibindex(1), bibjoin(1), biblabel(1), biblook(1), biborder(1), bibsort(1), citefind(1), and citetags(1), to process the text, and also is the one expected by the GNU Emacs BibTeX support functions.

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