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SYNOPSIS

       bib2gls [option]+ auxfile

DESCRIPTION

       bib2gls is designed to work with the glossaries-extra LaTeX package. (The record package
       option is required.) The application performs two functions in one: (1) selects entries
       from .bib files according to information found in the auxfile (similar to bibtex); (2)
       hierarchically sorts entries and collates location lists (similar to makeindex and xindy).
       The .aux extension may be omitted from auxfile.

       The auxfile (and corresponding .log file) should either be in the current directory or in
       the directory specified by --dir. Bib files can either be relative to the directory the
       auxfile is in or in a location that can be found by kpsewhich.

OPTIONS

--break-space
Interpret "~" (tilde) character and "\nobreakspace" as a normal space.

--cite-as-record
Treat "\citation" as an ignored record.

--collapse-same-location-range
Collapse an explicit range that has a duplicate start and end location into a normal
record (default).

--custom-packages list
Instruct the TeX parser library to attempt to parse the packages listed in list. This
is intended for simple custom packages that don't contain complex code.

--date-in-header (or -D)
The header comment at the start of the .glstex file will include the file modification
date.

--debug [n]
Switch on the debug mode at the given setting n, which should be a non-negative
integer. If n is 0 then the debug mode is switched off. If omitted, n is set to 1,
which corresponds to --debug-mode io. Any positive number will enable all of bib2gls's
debugging messages. The amount of TeX Parser Library debugging messages depends on
bitwise operation of n.

--debug-mode setting
May be used instead of --debug where the level number is difficult to remember. The
setting may be a comma-separated list of any of the keywords:

all Highest level (likely to result in a large transcript file). Equivalent to
switching on all settings.

catcode
TeX Parser category code changes.

cs TeX Parser command definitions.

decl
TeX Parser declarations.

expansion
TeX Parser expansions (may result in a large transcript file).

expansion-list
TeX Parser stack expansions (may result in a large transcript file).

expansion-once
TeX Parser one-level expansions.

expansion-once-list
TeX Parser one-level list expansions.

io TeX Parser I/O operations (open, close and fetch token).

popped
TeX Parser stack popping.

process
TeX Parser macro process (may result in a large transcript file).

process-generic-cs
TeX Parser generic command process.

process-stack
TeX Parser stack process (may result in a large transcript file).

process-stack-list
TeX Parser detailed stack process (may result in a large transcript file).

read
TeX Parser codepoint read from file (likely to result in a large transcript file).

sty-data
TeX Parser data (typically relates to internal objects that don't have an
analogous TeX macro). This includes data gathered from the aux file.

For example: "bib2gls --debug-mode io,catcode,sty-data mydoc"

--default-encoding name
Set the default character encoding for input and output files. If omitted, the JVM
default encoding is assumed.

--dir directory (or -d <directory>)
Files are relative to directory. (This doesn't change the current working directory.)

--expand-fields
Don't write "\glsnoexpandfields" to the .glstex file.

--force-cross-resource-refs or -x
Force cross-resource referencing mode on.

--group or -g
Add group field to entries.

--help or -h
Display help message and exit.

--ignore-packages list (or -k list)
Don't parse the log file for the packages listed in list. Note that --packages
overrides this option, so if the same package is listed in both --ignore-packages and
--packages then the interpreter will check if it's supported. This option has a
cumulative action. Only known packages may be included in list.

--interpret
Use the TeX Parser Library to interpret known (La)TeX commands (default).

--list-known-packages
Lists all the packages that have are known to the TeX parser library and then exits
(with exit code 0). Any of the listed packages may be used in --packages or
--ignore-packages.

--locale lang (or -l lang)
Use language resource file for lang (which should be an IETF locale tag).

--log-encoding name
Set the character encoding for the log files (which may not be the same as the
encoding for the document LaTeX files).

--log-file file (or -t <file>)
Set the transcript file.

--merge-nameref-on rule
Rule for merging locations created with the record=nameref package option (requires
glossaries-extra.sty version 1.37+). The rule may be one of: hcounter, href, title or
location.

--merge-wrglossary-records
Merge an entry's wrglossary records for the same page locations. (For use with the
indexcounter package option.)

--mfirstuc-math-protection
Switch on the auto-insertion of an empty group for math-shift ("$").

If mfirstuc v2.08+, glossaries v4.50+ and glossaries-extra v1.49+ are detected, the
default will be --no-mfirstuc-math-protection as there should no longer be any need
for this protection.

--mfirstuc-protection fields|all (or -u fields|all)
Insert an empty group if fields start with certain problematic commands to protect
against case-changing commands like "\Gls".

The default is to do this for all fields. To do this for only a subset of fields, set
fields to a comma-separated list of fields (e.g. name,short,long). The keyword all
indicates all fields.

If mfirstuc v2.08+, glossaries v4.50+ and glossaries-extra v1.49+ are detected, the
default will be --no-mfirstuc-protection as there should no longer be any need for
this protection.

--nested-link-check list|none
Check each field listed in list for potentially problematic nested link text. (Default
list: name, text, plural, first, firstplural, short, shortplural, long, longplural,
symbol).

If none, disable check.

--no-break-space
Interpret "~" (tilde) and "\nobreakspace" as a non-breaking space (default).

--no-cite-as-record
Don't check for instances of "\citation" in the .aux file (default).

--no-collapse-same-location-range
Don't collapse an explicit range that has a duplicate start and end location into a
normal record.

--no-date-in-header
The header comment at the start of the .glstex file will not include the file
modification date (default).

--no-debug (or --nodebug)
Switch off debug mode. (Equivalent to --debug 0)

--no-expand-fields
Write "\glsnoexpandfields" to the .glstex file (default).

--no-force-cross-resource-refs
Don't force cross-resource referencing mode on (default).

--no-group
Don't add group field to entries (default).

--no-interpret
Don't try interpreting (La)TeX commands. The TeX Parser Library will still be used to
parse the aux and bib files.

--no-merge-wrglossary-records
Don't merge an entry's wrglossary records.

--no-mfirstuc-math-protection
Switch off the auto-insertion of an empty group for math-shift ("$").

--no-mfirstuc-protection
Switch off the auto-insertion of an empty group for all fields.

--no-nested-link-check
Don't check for potentially problematic nested link text. (Equivalent to
--nested-link-check none)

--no-obey-aux-catcode
Ignore category code changing commands encountered in the aux file.

--no-provide-glossaries
Don't write "\provideignoredglossary*" to the .glstex file to provide unknown
glossaries except in documented situations (master, secondary and trigger-type
resource options). This setting is the default.

--no-record-count
Don't add record count field to entries (default). This option automatically
implements --no-record-count-unit.

--no-record-count-unit
Don't add unit record count field to entries (default).

--no-replace-quotes
Don't replace quote characters (default).

--no-retain-formats
Normal location merging rules apply (default).

--no-support-unicode-script
Text superscript ("\textsuperscript") or subscripts ("\textsubscript") won't be
converted to Unicode superscript/subscript characters. For example,
"\textsuperscript{2}" will be converted to "<sup>2</sup>" and the markup will be
stripped leaving just the character 2.

--no-trim-fields
Don't trim leading and trailing spaces from fields (default). This option cancels
--trim-only-fields and --trim-fields.

--no-verbose (or --noverbose)
Switch off verbose mode. (Some messages will still be written to STDOUT.)

--no-warn-non-bib-fields
Don't warn if internal non-bib fields are found in the .bib file. The use of these
internal fields can cause unexpected results, so only use this option if you have
taken appropriate precautions.

--no-warn-unknown-entry-types
Don't warn if any unknown entry types are found in the .bib file.

--obey-aux-catcode
Obey known category code changing commands encountered in the aux file.

--packages list (or -p list)
Instruct the TeX parser library to pretend the packages listed in list have been used
by the document. Note that there's only a limited number of packages supported by the
TeX parser library. This option has a cumulative action so --packages wasysym,pifont
is the same as --packages wasysym --packages pifont.

You can find out the list of supported packages with --list-known-packages.

--provide-glossaries
Write "\provideignoredglossary*" to the .glstex file to provide unknown glossaries.

--quiet (or -q)
Only display error messages. All other messages are just written to the transcript
file.

--record-count or -c
Add record count fields to entries.

--record-count-rule rule or -r rule
Sets the rule used by --record-count and --record-count-unit. This option
automatically implements --record-count.

The rule may be: "all" or "a" (count all records), "non-ignored" or "n" (count all
non-ignored records), "f/"regex"/" (only count records where the format matches the
regular expression regex), "c/"regex"/" (only count records where the counter name
matches the regular expression regex), or "f/"regex1"/c/"regex2"/"op (only count
records where the format matches the regular expression regex1 and/or the counter name
matches the regular expression regex2). The op part is optional. If present it may be
one of: "and" (format AND counter must match), "or" (format OR counter must match). If
op is omitted, AND is assumed.

--record-count-unit or -n
Add unit record count fields to entries. This option automatically implements
--record-count.

--replace-quotes
Replace single and double quote characters ("'" and """) with "\bibglsaposchar" and
"\bibglsdoublequotechar" in field values and group information written to the .glstex
file.

--retain-formats list
Indicates which location formats should always be retained even if it causes a partial
duplicate. Only exact duplicates will be merged.

--shortcuts option
Check for the shortcut commands when searching for dependencies. Permitted values of
option: acronyms (or acro), ac, abbreviations (or abbr), all (or true), none (or
false). This overrides the setting given in auxfile.

--map-format key:value[,key:value]* (or -m key:value[,key:value]*)
Set location format mappings.

--silent
Only display error messages. All other messages are just written to the transcript
file. (Synonym of --quiet.)

--support-unicode-script
Text superscript ("\textsuperscript") or subscripts ("\textsubscript") will use
Unicode superscript/subscript characters if available. For example,
"\textsuperscript{2}" will be converted to U+00B2 (superscript two).

--tex-encoding name
Set the character encoding for the glstex files. This overrides the setting given in
auxfile.

--trim-except-fields list
Trim leading and trailing spaces from all fields except those listed. This option is
cumulative but is cancelled by --trim-fields and --no-trim-fields. This option may not
be used with --trim-only-fields.

--trim-fields
Trim leading and trailing spaces from all fields. This option cancels
--trim-only-fields and --no-trim-fields.

--trim-only-fields list
Trim leading and trailing spaces from only the listed fields. This option is
cumulative but is cancelled by --trim-fields and --no-trim-fields. This option may not
be used with --trim-except-fields.

--verbose
Switch on verbose mode.

--version or -v
Display version information and exit.

--warn-non-bib-fields
Warn if internal non-bib fields are found in the .bib file.

--warn-unknown-entry-types
Warn if any unknown entry types are found in the .bib file.

REQUIRES

       Java 8 or later and a TeX distribution.

LICENSE

       License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free
       software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent
       permitted by law.

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