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How do I know, whether I need to run BibTeX or not?

If I have an unknown *.tex file and want to know, whether I need to run BiBTeX afterwards or not, what is the simplest way to find out in a script? Consider this file: \documentclass{article} \begin{...
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Convert the relevant part in bib file to bibliography entries

I have a latex file with a bibliography. I enter the bibliography items taken from Bibliography.bib file with the command \bibliographystyle{apalike} \bibliography{Bibliography} Is it possible to ...
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How to make the first letter in the field names of a bib file produced by BibDesk all be lowercase?

As you see, in the following example all the first letters of the field names such as Author, Booktitle, and so on, are capital. I want to make all of them be lowercase. The file is produced by ...
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Automate TexnicCenter Build Process

For my current project to get everything right, I need the following steps : Clean Project Build Output Bibtex Build Output Is there some possibility to get this 4 steps automated or scripted ...
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Downloading to bibtex faster [closed]

Since this is latex specific: Is there an automated way to download bibtex formats from pages such as ACM, IEEE, google scholar etc? The whole process seems time consuming from getting to the page, ...
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Sanitize U+301 infection and others in references

Too often I messed with bad formated BibTeX files from references databases that are infected with active characters as % or & (usually in the abstract, that is not printed but produce an error ...
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How can I use multiple non-entry-disjoint .bib files, unmerged?

Suppose I have a cats.bib and hats.bib which I want to use in an article on cats in hats. There already is an existing paper about that (well, sort of), which I have in both files. Now, I do not want ...
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How do I automatically generate BibTeX citation template in Kile?

When I want to cite something in BibTeX, I Google (for example) bibtex article and scour for pages with example templates filled out: @article{article, author = {Peter Adams}, title = {The ...
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How to automate typeset proceess? [duplicate]

I am currently using Texworks + Linux. To compile the PDF I hit pdflatex + bibtex + pdflatex + pdflatex. Is there a way so that I create a new typeset that does that in one click? Found the easy ...
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Script to import .bib and output HTML based on a style [closed]

I'm able to use various tools (such as pyP2B.py) to generate a BibTex database. I've also successfully created a AMA styled RTF of the database using JabRef and the APAish extension, although this ...
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Fine-tuning bibliography

This question concerns fine-tuning a bibliography. I collected bib files (that are available for download from the source of a journal article) and put them all in a single biblio.bib file. Here are ...
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Bibtex fails without citations... (test for citations? or invisible dummy cite)

I have a LaTeX folder where I use the same makefile and preamble for building either a part of the report or the entire report. This is achieved by a hack in the makefile where I substitute the file ...
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A tool for creating bibtex entries from MARC tags?

My library provides citation information for books in several formats, but not as bibtex entries. One standard format is the so-called MARC manual tags, which are human incomprehensible, but at least ...
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