Scripting Introduction

Normally Bibledit is a graphical program, and the user interacts with it through the keyboard and the mouse. But when arguments are passed to it on the commandline, it changes into a program suitable for scripting.

To get an impression of what scripting possibilities Bibledit offers, run

bibledit --help

This will give a list of options.

There are options for project management, import and export, and so on.

To get more information on a particular option, run that optiion with the --help switch. For example, if you would like to know more about importing a book, run

bibledit --import-book --help

The scripting part and the graphical part of Bibledit all work on the same data. This means, for example, if a book is imported through a script, it will also be available in the graphical version of Bibledit.