CRH Reference Handler BETA
The CRH Reference Handler is a low-level
citation management system, implemented in bash.
It can be used on its own, or in conjunction with other
software, e.g. LaTEX and BibTEX.
CRH makes it easy to export references to other
formats, including RIS, BibTEX, HTML and
ASCII. All data are stored in plain text files (UTF-8 Unicode),
and are easy to parse, edit and generate.
Note: This software was designed to be lightweight, there are no
extremely fancy features and there is no GUI.
(If you'd like to code a GUI for it, please do!)
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Installation
Linux, Mac and Unix-like systems
Recommended setup steps:
- Copy both crh and utf8_to_latex to
/usr/local/bin, or to your home directory (e.g.
~/bin), making sure that directory
is included in your PATH environment variable.
For example, you can append
export PATH="$PATH:~/bin"
to your
~/.profile or ~/.bashrc, as appropriate.
- Make a central directory for your references, e.g. ~/crh.
All your reference files should be placed in there, ideally
using a consistent naming scheme (such as authorYEAR[abc].crh).
- Done! Now you can call CRH from the command line by simply
typing crh.
(To set up LaTeX and BibTEX to automatically import relevant references
from CRH, please check the manual section on refchk.)
Windows and DOS
If you are using CYGWIN, please
proceed like for Unix-like systems.
Otherwise, if you are using Windows without CYGWIN, and you have a
working bash binary installed, you can call CRH with
bash.exe C:\crh\crh
from a command line environment or from within other software.
(I have not tested using CRH with plain Windows or DOS, so
if you're using it on either platform, please get in touch.)
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