The general idea is that .bib files are converted to .pl files using
bib2pl and then the .pl (Prolog) files are used to generate several listings, reports, etc. automatically, by writing simple Prolog scripts. A number of sample scripts are provided. Some library files are also available with some predicates which may facilitate writing other, similar scripts.
In order for the bibutils package to work optimally, .bib files must adhere to some conventions, which are specified in section Conventions for BiBTeX files.
In general, automatically generated files produced by the scripts include _auto in the name in order to identify them as such.
As mentioned above, these utilities have been written as
Prolog scripts. Such scripts are supported directly by certain Prolog systems (such as
CIAO Prolog) and can be implemented easily on other Prolog systems (e.g., a
prolog_shell package is available for
SICStus Prolog from http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Software).
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