LaTeX Bib File Capitalization Tool

This tool processes .bib files by wrapping capital letters in specified words or phrases with curly braces {} to ensure that the capital letters in these words are not automatically downcased when generating references in LaTeX.

Features

• Automatically wraps capitalized letters in specified words or phrases with {} to preserve capitalization in LaTeX.
• Supports both all-uppercase and title-case words.
• Allows customization through a separate file containing the words or phrases that need capitalization preservation.
• Processes only the title fields of the .bib entries.
• The modified content is written to a new .bib file with _modified appended to its filename.

Requirements

• Python 3.x

Quick Test

You can quickly run the script with:

python converter.py

This will process the default .bib file (test.bib) and the default formatted words file (formatted_words.txt), then generate a new .bib file (test_modified.bib).

Command-Line Arguments

• -b, --bib: Path to the input .bib file. Default is test.bib.
• -w, --words: Path to the file containing formatted words or phrases. Default is formatted_words.txt.

python converter.py -b your_bib_file.bib -w formatted_words.txt

Customizing formatted_words.txt

The formatted_words.txt file contains words or phrases for capitalization preservation. You can customize it to suit your own needs. The version included in the repository is just an example/template and can be modified as needed.