gasp@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Isaac Kohane) (01/22/87)
Does anybody know of any implementation of BibTeX (creates custom bibliographies for LaTeX documents) for the Mac? Pointers to applications, or source code (massaged for the Mac) would be appreciated. Isaac Kohane
chpf127@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Eaton) (05/11/88)
I have a lot of references which I would like to have listed in BIBTeX file(s) but have found that entering them in an editor is pretty slow going, and that I have to keep looking to see what fields I need to enter. So, Does anyone out there know of or have an interactive program which will help me create .bib files for BIBTeX? Ideally, this program would prompt me for the type of entry (i.e. Journal, Book, etc.) and then let me enter the information for the different fields. It would also remind me which fields were required, optional or ignored for each type of entry. Extra bonus features would be checking to see that the key I've chosen is unique, and whether the entry already exists. I could write one, and probably will if no one knows of such a beast, but would appreciate knowing whether I would just be duplicating existing software. thanks in advance ... J. Eaton Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 My employer doesn't really like me, and he certainly doesn't trust me enough to let me speak for him, so I don't.
rusty@velveeta.berkeley.edu (rusty wright) (05/11/88)
re: interactive input of bibtex entries; the latest version of gnu emacs (18.51) contains a bitex mode which probably does what you want. -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@cartan.berkeley.edu ucbvax!cartan!rusty
dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk) (05/12/88)
In article <2268@ut-emx.UUCP> chpf127@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Eaton) writes: > > Does anyone out there know of or have an interactive program which will > help me create .bib files for BIBTeX? Ideally, this program would prompt > me for the type of entry (i.e. Journal, Book, etc.) and then let me > enter the information for the different fields. It would also remind > me which fields were required, optional or ignored for each type > of entry. Extra bonus features would be checking to see that the > key I've chosen is unique, and whether the entry already exists. > Pro-Cite by Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc., does everything you want, and a great deal more. It can even hunt through an article, recognize references, and construct a bibliography for you, much as BibTeX does, but working only from the unflagged citations in the text. In fact, it does a lot of the jobs that Bibtex does, and in a smoother, more integrated manner (no offence to BTX). You have complete control of the format of the output, including conditionally inserted codes, so you can have ProCite output a bibliography all ready formatted for digestion by TeX. I have done this with great success. It really is excellent. For publicity blurb contact: Pers. Bibl. Software, Inc., 412 Longshore Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105. Phone: (313) 996 1580. ProCite gets a useful write-up in John J. Hughes's excellent survey of text applications, _Bits Bytes & Biblical Studies_ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987). Hughes praises ProCite as "the most complex, powerful, and flexible of the bibliographical programs. It is best suited for professionals and others with 'serious' bibliographical needs." The only problem is that ProCite is expensive. $395. And they keep upgrading and charging $50 each time. Scandalous. But the product as it is now, at version 1.4, is heavily feature-laden, and has arrived at some sort of plateau, I feel. You might also look at the new Buttonware product, PC-File plus, version 2.0. The fields are now big enough to take a reasonable amount of text data, and I think it can recognize duplicates. Shareware. $69. Dominik -- bitnet: user DOW on the bitnet node HARVUNXW arpanet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu uucp: ...!ihnp4!wjh12!dow
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (05/12/88)
This is not an interactive program, but an alternative to BibTeX. Dr.
James Alexander has a program called tib, in
eneevax.umd.edu:~ftp/pub/tib. The database is sort of refer-like and
one advantage over BibTeX is the ability to use keywords. It runs on
Unix and VMS and possibly other systems. It is written in C and looks
fairly portable. We have it installed here but most (if not all) users
prefer to use the standard BibTeX.
Ken
Here is the first part of the man page:
TIB(1) USER COMMANDS TIB(1)
NAME
tib, tibdex, tiblook, tiblist - process reference and cita-
tion entries for TeX documents
SYNOPSIS
tib [-d <directory>] [-i <include file>] [-p <private index
file(s)>] [-s <style file>] [-x] [-z] [-|] [<input file(s)>]
tibdex [-c <common-word file>] [-k <key number>] [-l <length
of keys>] [-p <private output file>] [-z] [-% <string>]
<reference file(s)>
tiblist [-d <directory> ][-i <include file>] [-s <style
file>] [-x] [-z] [-|] [<reference file(s)>]
tiblook [-c <common-words file>] [-l <length of keys>] [-p
<private indices>]
DESCRIPTION
There are four programs in the Tib package:
Tib bibliographic preprocessor for TeX documents,
Tibdex makes inverted index from database(s),
Tiblist lists all members of the database(s),
Tiblook interactively locates listings in the database(s).jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) (12/14/88)
Whenever I use bibtex with the unsrt style (I have not tried any of the other styles yet) all the capitalized words in the titles of articles become uncapitalized, except for the first word in the title. It does not happen with the titles of books. This is rather annoying, especially when a title contains an acronym or shorthand like M/G/1 for a type of queueing model. I have "solved" the problem by manually editing the .bbl file after running bibtex. Is there a more elegant way of taking care of this? RSVP John Zavgren, jzavgren@bbn.com
lang@pearl.PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang) (12/15/88)
In article <33510@bbn.COM+ jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) writes: +Whenever I use bibtex with the unsrt style (I have not tried any of the +other styles yet) all the capitalized words in the titles of articles +become uncapitalized, except for the first word in the title. It does +not happen with the titles of books. This is rather annoying, +especially when a title contains an acronym or shorthand like M/G/1 for +a type of queueing model. + +I have "solved" the problem by manually editing the .bbl file after +running bibtex. Is there a more elegant way of taking care of this? + +RSVP +John Zavgren, jzavgren@bbn.com I'm hardly a BiBTeX wizard, but I did manage to solve this one, I think. The stuff that munges on the capitalization of the article is the following code in the file unsrt.bst: ---------- FUNCTION {format.title} { title missing$ { "" } { title "ul" change.case$ } if$ } ---------- If you replace that with ---------- FUNCTION {format.title} { title field.or.null } ---------- I think you'll get the behavior you want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Francois-Michel Lang Paoli Research Center, Unisys Corporation lang@prc.unisys.com (215) 648-7256 Dept of Comp & Info Science, U of PA lang@cis.upenn.edu (215) 898-9511
ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) (12/15/88)
You could just enclose the fields you want to protect within braces,
like in:
title = "{RCS - A System for Version Control}",
The braces prevent bibtex from screwing with the capitalization.
Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.commrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) (12/15/88)
from LaTeX Users's Guide and Reference Manual page 143: Uppercase letter that should not be changed are enclosed in braces. from unsrt.bst % Copying of this file is authorized only if either % (1) you make absolutely no changes to your copy, including name, or % (2) if you do make changes, you name it something other than % btxbst.doc, plain.bst, unsrt.bst, alpha.bst, and abbrv.bst. -- Michael DeCorte // (315)265-2439 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet: mrd@clutx.bitnet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp) (12/15/88)
In article <33510@bbn.COM> jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) writes: >Whenever I use bibtex with the unsrt style (I have not tried any of the >other styles yet) all the capitalized words in the titles of articles >become uncapitalized, except for the first word in the title. It does >not happen with the titles of books. This is rather annoying, >especially when a title contains an acronym or shorthand like M/G/1 for >a type of queueing model. > >[stuff deleted] Page 143 of the LaTeX manual (Appendix B: BibTeX) states: Uppercase letters that should not be changed are enclosed in braces. - Edgar "If everything else fails, read the manuals."