[comp.text.tex] Printing Bibliography

vinay@ai.toronto.edu ("Vinay K. Chaudhri") (08/11/90)

I have a bibliographic database (BiBTeX format)  that I plan to use 
with my LaTeX documents.  Now each entry of this database may not be
cited in the source document.  I want to have one print out of the database
in which *every* entry is listed  (formatted).
Is there any way to do this ?

I am sure there should be a way, Would appreciate any pointers to this !

vinay@ai.toronto.edu

vinay@ai.toronto.edu ("Vinay K. Chaudhri") (08/17/90)

>   I have a bibliographic database (BiBTeX format)  that I plan to use 
>   with my LaTeX documents.  Now each entry of this database may not be
>   cited in the source document.  I want to have one print out of the database
>   in which *every* entry is listed  (formatted).
>   Is there any way to do this ?


Thanx to everyone who responded to my above query.  The solutions varied
from as simple as using \nocite{*} command to as complex as using a 
special purpose shell script.  I found using \nocite{*} to be the 
easiest thing.  All you have to do is to create a dummy file containing
only the above command and process it using LaTeX as regular files.
For example this dummy file may look like :

\documentstyle[12pt,fullpage]{article}
\textheight  8.5 in
\textwidth 6.5 in
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\bibliography{name-of-bibliography-database}
\end{document}

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