This shell script is a wrapper for the bibliography client refdbib to simplify the creation of bibliographies. For SGML and XML documents, runbib first runs openjade or xsltproc, respectively, to retrieve a list of citations from your source document. Then it runs refdbib to generate the bibliography as an external entity based on the extracted citation information. It will also create stylesheet driver files with the formatting information for subsequent document transformations. For BibTeX documents, runbib uses the information in the .aux file to retrieve a bibliography file that you can use as an input file for bibtex.
runbib [-d database] [-E encoding] [-G css-file] [-h] [-i server-ip...] [-I] [-m includevar...] [-N number] [-S style] [-t type] [-u username] [-w password] {file...}
The command-line switches are:
Select the default database. This database is used to retrieve the references unless the reference elements specify a database.
Specify the character encoding that the retrieved bibliography data should use.
Set the path or the URL of a CSS file to be used by the (x)html output
Displays a help message and exits.
Set the server IP address or hostname.
Skip the ID extraction step. You'll have to create an appropriate citationlistx file yourself.
Specify variable names to include marked sections in the source document.
Start numbering the bibliography entries at number. This option applies only to numeric citation styles.
Select a bibliography style. This style must have been made available with the refdba command addstyle. To see which styles are available, use the liststyle command of refdba and refdbc.
Select the output type. This is one of "db31" (DocBook SGML documents), "db31x" (DocBook XML documents), "teix" (TEI XML documents), or "bibtex" (Latex documents).
All other command-line arguments are interpreted as input filenames.
Note: In the spirit of the LaTeX/BibTeX tools you can omit the .aux suffix in the input filename(s) for BibTeX output.
refdbib generates two output files in addition to the ID listing created by Jade/OpenJade. runbib creates another output file from these. Assuming you have a source file foo.sgml and use the bibliography style J.Biol.Chem. you will get:
This is the DSSSL driver file file that encodes some additional formatting information specific for the chosen bibliography style for use in subsequent document transformations. This file will be written to the present working directory. The driver file is a dual-purpose stylesheet for HTML and printable output.
This is the intermediate XML file that encodes the citations in foo.sgml.
This is the file that holds the DocBook bibliography element. You have to include this file as an external entity into your source document to integrate the bibliography into your text.
This is a CSS file which contains formatting information used by the html output.
refdbib again generates two output files as for the DocBook SGML output above, and we also count the ID listing created by xsltproc. However, runbib does a little post-processing, so you'll get two additional files in the end. Assuming you have a source file foo.xml and use the bibliography style J.Biol.Chem. you will get:
This is the XSL driver file used for printable output, containing additional formatting information specific for the chosen bibliography style. This file will be written to the present working directory.
This is the XSL driver file used for HTML output, containing additional formatting information specific for the chosen bibliography style. This file will be written to the present working directory.
This is the intermediate XML file that encodes the citations in foo.xml.
This is the file that holds the DocBook or TEI bibliography. You have to include this file as an external entity into your source document to integrate the bibliography into your text.
This is a CSS file which contains formatting information used by the html or xhtml output.
refdbib creates one output file with the reference information. If your document is named foo.tex, latex will create a file foo.aux which refdbib uses as an input file. The refdbib output file will then be named foo.bib and can be used by bibtex as an input file.
You should run this script from the directory where your document files are stored, as all output will be written to the present working directory by default.
The following command will create a DocBook SGML bibliography file together with a DSSSL stylesheet driver file for the DocBook SGML document mypaper.sgml. The output files are tweaked to match the citation and bibliography style of the "Journal of Biological Chemistry", which was added to the database with the name "J.Biol.Chem." previously. All references which do not contain a hard-coded database name are assumed to be in the database bar.
~$ runbib -d bar -S "J.Biol.Chem." -t db31 mypaper.sgml |