richardd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Dallaway) (05/24/91)
I'm using LaTeX to construct a technical report containing about 40 papers (something like a conference proceedings, but not quite). So I have 40 article style LaTeX files, using a variety of bibliographical (BIBTeX) styles, etc. What's a good way for me to pull these together? Treat it like a book, and have each article as a chapter? I'm mostly worried about the different bibliography styles (I don't want to impose a standard style on everyone). Cheers, Richard
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (05/25/91)
In article <5204@syma.sussex.ac.uk> richardd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Dallaway) writes:
I'm using LaTeX to construct a technical report containing about 40
papers (something like a conference proceedings, but not quite). So I
have 40 article style LaTeX files, using a variety of bibliographical
(BIBTeX) styles, etc. What's a good way for me to pull these
together? Treat it like a book, and have each article as a chapter?
I'm mostly worried about the different bibliography styles (I don't
want to impose a standard style on everyone).
To answer the latter question, why not? Isnt that one of the great
advantage of BibTeX? When I do this sort of job, I treat each chapter
separately, and create a .bbl file for each one. My overall file hauls
in all of these one after another, with the .bbl file, and sorts out
the overall crossreferences. To ensure this works, I have a single
.bib file for the whole book, as a) otherwise the symbolic references
may get confused, and b) the authors probably cite the same things :-}
I manage the work with a Makefile and a small harness which drags in a
given chapter and runs it through its paces.
Sebastian
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