grunt-tex-bibtex

Part of the grunt-tex suite of LaTeX-orientated Grunt tasks.

This plugin can be used to generate bibliography files using the application bibtex.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5 and bibtex to be available.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-tex-bibtex --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-tex-bibtex');

The "bibtex" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named bibtex to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  bibtex: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    }
  }
});

Options

options.executable

Type: String Default value: bibtex

If bibtex is not available on the command line as bibtex, put it's location in this option.

options.args

Type: Object Default value: { -terse: null }

An object of arguments to pass through to bibtex as command line options. Check the bibtex man page for all options. A few rules are applied to these arguments:

• If the value of a key is null, it will be treated a flag, i.e. it will be compiled as --option rather than --option=null
• If the key starts with - and has a value, will be used to separate the key and value
• If the key starts with -- and has a value, = will be used to separate the key and value

Without changing any arguments, bibtex will be executed like so:

bibtex -terse <document-name>

Usage Examples

Basic

This is the most basic usage of bibtex:

grunt.initConfig({
  bibtex: "document.aux"
});

Multitask

In this example, bibtex is used as a multitask, with a custom path to bibtex specified.

grunt.initConfig({
  bibtex: {
    options: {
      executable: "/usr/bin/bibtex"
    },
    documentone: "documentone.aux",
    documenttwo: "documenttwo.aux"
  }
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 2015-01-08 v0.1.0 Initial release
• 2015-01-09 v0.2.0 Change argument handling