[comp.archives] [tex] Re: looking for troff bib to BiBTeX

djs@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (David J. Sturman) (06/02/90)

Archive-name: tib/01-Jun-90
Original-posting-by: djs@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (David J. Sturman)
Original-subject: Re: looking for troff bib to BiBTeX
Archive-site: minos.inria.fr [128.93.39.5]
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

In article <1990May31.165417.10534@cs.UAlberta.CA> fode@cs.UAlberta.CA (Peter Fode) writes:
>	I'm looking for program that converts bibliographies from the troff 
>form into BibTeX. It would save me some time if I didn't have to write 
>a program.

Rather than convert to BibTeX you can use Tib which reads refer (troff)
databases and generates TeX or Latex references.  I've been using it
for a while now and am very pleased with it.  The latest version is
v2.2 and can be gotten via anonymous ftp from minos.inria.fr(128.93.39.5).

David Sturman
MIT Media Lab