beastie – Beastie is an experiment in parsing and processing BibTeX files

Beastie is:

• A parser for .bib files, amongst others.
• A implementation of the .bst BibTeX Style Language.
• That .bst implementation is hosted in a dialect of Scheme, extended with suitable parsing and processing primitives.

The goals of this project are:

• to explore ways of processing .bib files which aren't exclusively based on .bst;
• to provide a second implementation of the BST language; and
• to initiate some sort of conversation about BibTeX standards, broadly construed.

There was an article about Beastie v0.12 in TUGBoat, 46:2, pp.220–227 (2025), doi:10.47397/tb/46-2/tb143gray-beastie.

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