Biblet: A portable BibTeX bibliography style for generating highly customizable XHTML
Tristan Miller · 2005
We present Biblet, a set of BibTEX bibliography styles (bst) which generate XHTML from BibTEX databases. Unlike other BibTEX to XML/HTML converters, Biblet is written entirely in the native BibTEX style language and therefore works “out of the box ” on any system that runs BibTEX. Features include automatic conversion of L ATEX symbols to HTML or Unicode entities; customizable graphical hyperlinks to PostScript, PDF, DVI, L ATEX, and HTML resources; support for nonstandard but common fields such as day, isbn, and abstract; hideable text blocks; and output of the original BibTEX entry for sharing citations. Biblet’s highly structured XHTML output means that bibliography appearance to can be drastically altered simply by specifying a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), or easily postprocessed with third-party XML, HTML, or text processing tools. We compare and contrast Biblet to other common converters, describe basic usage of Biblet, give examples of how to produce custom-formatted bibliographies, and provide a basic overview of the implementation details for those wishing to modify the style files.