The 'Text::BibTeX' module serves mainly as a high-level introduction to the
'Text::BibTeX' library, for both code and documentation purposes. The code
loads the two fundamental modules for processing BibTeX files
('Text::BibTeX::File' and 'Text::BibTeX::Entry'), and this documentation
gives a broad overview of the whole library that isn't available in the
documentation for the individual modules that comprise it.

In addition, the 'Text::BibTeX' module provides a number of miscellaneous
functions that are useful in processing BibTeX data (especially the kind
that comes from bibliographies as defined by BibTeX 0.99, rather than
generic database files). These functions don't generally fit in the
object-oriented class hierarchy centred around the 'Text::BibTeX::Entry'
class, mainly because they are specific to bibliographic data and operate
on generic strings (rather than being tied to a particular BibTeX entry).
These are also documented here, in the "MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS" manpage.

Note that every module described here begins with the 'Text::BibTeX'
prefix. For brevity, I have dropped this prefix from most class and module
names in the rest of this manual page (and in most of the other manual
pages in the library).