BibTeX, biblatex and biberHow to print bib database and keys?

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pakogaban
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How to print bib database and keys?

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I want to print all entries in my .bib file with keys listed besides every entry.

For example, if I have in my .bib file something like that:
@article{key,
author = "Name",
title = "Title",
year = 2000
}

can I get it printed in pdf file like this:
[key] Name.Title.2000.

I need it because there are many entries in my bibliography database and it's not very comfortable to look in the .bib file for the keys when I want to cite something. Or maybe there is some better way to solve this problem?

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arwintcher
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Re: How to print bib database and keys?

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Are you just using your bibliography database as a single text file? Perhaps you should try something like JabRef.
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gmedina
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How to print bib database and keys?

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Hi pakogaban,

you could use the showkeys package. Assuming that your biliographical database is biblio.bib you can create a .tex document like the following (I will call it test.tex):

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{showkeys}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{biblio}
\end{document}
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and then process it in the standard way:

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The obtained pdf document will contain all the items of the file biblio.bib with their corresponding keys nicely boxed.
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,...
pakogaban
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How to print bib database and keys?

Post by pakogaban »

Thank you, gmedina, that's what I wanted!
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