bib2bltx

#!/bin/env bash

# use biber to handle conversion, but ensure input is utf-8 first
iconv -t utf-8 "${1}"
biber --tool --tool-fieldcase='lower' --quiet -O "${1}" "${1}"

# tidy the final file
bibtex-tidy --sort-fields --curly --numeric --align=13 --sort=key --duplicates=key --no-escape --no-remove-dupe-fields --generate-keys="[auth:required:lower][year:required]" ${1}