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<chapter id="getting-started">
<title>Getting started with &app;</title>
<sect1 id="introduction">
<title>What is Pybliographer?</title>
<para>Pybliographer is a tool for working with bibliographic
databases. It provides a general framework that can be used to
manipulate these databases with a simple graphical interface,
but that can also be easily extended by the mean of a
scripting language, to fit a wide range of needs.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="how-to-start">
<title>How to start Pybliographer?</title>
<para>You can start <application>&app;</application> in the
following ways:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Graphical mode</term>
<listitem>
<para>To start <application>&app;</application> in
graphical mode from a command line, type the following
command, then press <keycap>Return</keycap>:</para>
<para>
<command>pybliographic</command>
</para>
<para>For information on the graphical interface, see
<xref linkend="graphical-interface" />.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Command line mode</term>
<listitem>
<para>You can start <application>&app;</application>
also in command line mode by typing the following
command followed by pressing <keycap>Return</keycap>:
</para>
<para>
<command>pybliographer</command>
</para>
<para>For information on the command line interface,
see <xref linkend="command-line" />.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>From the gnome menu</term>
<listitem>
<para>If the desktop file of the package is correctly
installed in your sytem, you can find a launcher under
the gnome menu to start the graphical interface of &app;.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>It is possible to set the PYBLIOGRAPHER_DATABASE environment variable to an
admissible bibliography file in order to open it always on startup, if no files are
specified on the command line. Example:</para>
<screen>
<prompt>bash$ </prompt><userinput>export PYBLIOGRAPHER_DATABASE=my/database.bib</userinput>
<prompt>bash$ </prompt><userinput>pybliographic</userinput>
</screen>
<para>It is equivalent to</para>
<screen>
<prompt>bash$ </prompt><userinput>pybliographic my/database.bib</userinput>
</screen>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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