phil@waikato.ac.nz (04/23/91)
Can anyone point me in the right direction to find documentation on BibTeX. If it matters, I will be getting the Macintosh version to use with OzTeX. Thanks in advance. -- Phil Etheridge (phil@waikato.ac.nz) Phax: +64 +71 384 155 Computer Services/Mathematics & Statistics Phone: +64 +71 568 299 x 8339 University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ. I'd rather be MTBing
bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst) (04/25/91)
The question of where to find documentation on BIBTeX is certainly a good one. I would mail you the manual page from our mainframe, but it's incomprehensible. When I asked Information Services about it, violent interjections flew on my screen from a consultant who once tried to decypher it. BIBTeX has been incorporated into LaTeX, it seems, and the reference I use is the eight page Appendix B "The bibliography database" in Leslie Lamport's LaTeX manual. This documentation starts with an example! The form of the bibliographic entries is virtually the same as that used by Scribe, so documentation on Scribe may be useful. Leslie Lamport, 1986. LaTeX, a Document Preparation System. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 01867, U.S.A. ISBN 0-201-15790-X (paperback). Computer books published in the U.S.A. are available from the Computer Literacy Bookshop, 520 Lawrence Expressway, Sunnyvale, California, 94086, U.S.A., phone: 408-730-9955. Bruce Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 bathurst@phoenix.princeton.edu bathurst@pucc.bitnet !princeton!phoenix!bathurst