Welcome to the btx wiki!

Downloading and compiling btx

btx is developed using Haskell and the Haskell Tool Stack. Instructions for downloading the source code and compiling are provided here.

Tutorial

• The Basics

  • Setting up the tutorial
  • Loading and creating a working bibliography
  • Viewing the contents of a bibliography
  • Separating commands

• Working with Bibliography Entries

  • The btx context
  • Populating the context and creating a new entry
  • Modifying entries
  • Other ways to populate the context

• Deleting and Editing Entries

  • Deleting entries
  • Editing entries

• Import and Export Bibliographies

  • Import bibliographies
  • Export bibliographies

Getting help

btx is written with an emphasis on help documentation. You can get a complete list of all currently supported commands, keywords and directives using:

$ btx help

You can get detailed information about any one command, keyword or directive using:

$ btx help <what-you-want-to-know-about>

for example, to get the details about the get command use btx help get.