2006-08-11
refdb_latex2utf8txt 1 2006-08-11 RefDB Manual
refdb_latex2utf8txt converts bibtex bibliographic data to UTF-8 plain text
`refdb_latex2utf8txt`

## Description

refdb_latex2utf8txt is a helper tool which is used by bib2ris-utf8 to clean up the output of bib2ris. It is implemented as a filter which reads from stdin and writes to stdout, without any command-line options.

## Diagnostics

The exit code of `refdb_latex2utf8txt` is always 0 (zero).

## Data Processing

- The conversion that this tool performs was designed to facilitate the import of reference data from bibtex, through bib2ris (1), to RefDB.

- Foreign and special characters which are encoded as LaTeX commands are converted to their UTF-8 counterparts.

- All other LaTeX command are stripped off.

## See also

RefDB (7), bib2ris (1).

RefDB manual (local copy) PREFIX/share/doc/refdb-<version>/refdb-manual/index.html

RefDB manual (web) <http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html>

RefDB on the web <http://refdb.sourceforge.net/>

## Author

refdb_latex2utf8txt was written by Markus Hoenicka <markus@mhoenicka.de> based on a similar script by Peter Csizmadia.