bibcop: style checker of .bib files

[yegor256]

There is a tool called biblint, which checks the quality of .bib files and fixes most of the typical bugs. However, it's not powerful enough. Would be great to extend it with semantic rules, to catch the bugs such as (on top of what biblint can catch):

• The booktitle mentions the year
• The names of authors are not abbreviated right (spaces and dots at wrong places)
• Not all major words are capitalized in titles and booktitle
• The title and booktitle must be in double parenthesis
• The usage of inproceedings is wrong, b/c booktitle is missing
• Single dash instead of triple dash is used in the title
• First name of author is abbreviated to a single letter
• Journal name is abbreviated, like CACM
• Conference name is abbreviated, like OOPSLA

Maybe we can improve biblint or create a new one from scratch (let's call it bibcop). It should be a command line tool, which runs like this:

$ tlmgr install bibcop
$ bibcop my.bib

or

$ bibcop -a my.bib

where -a means --autofix.

Also, would be nice to have a LaTeX package, which would be the front-end of this linter. I should be able to use it inside my document:

\documentclass{article}
\bibliography{foo} % foo.bib is my file
\usepackage{bibcop} % here, a LaTeX warning will be issued for each problem in the .bib file
\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

[yegor256]

First version is released: https://github.com/yegor256/bibcop Now, we need to make it stronger, add more checkers to it.