leonickl/bibtex-formatter

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A simplistic BibTeX formatter in PHP

v2.3.0 2025-11-10 22:12 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.4

Unknown License

• Leo Nickl

README

Installation

composer global require leonickl/bibtex-formatter

Usage

format-bibtex literature.tex [--save|--print|--log|--dump]

• --print prints the result to the console (default option)
• --save overrides the original file
• --log prints a step-wise info about each token and the current state of the app
• --dump dumps the resulting PHP datastructure to the console

Warning: The original file will be overwritten by this!

Features

This formatter only supports simple entries of the form

@type{reference,
    key = {value},
    other = 5,
    ...
}

The formatter

• adds trailing commas,
• aligns = signs above each other,
• and sets indentation to 4 spaces.
• ...