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s442215@nexus..YorkU.CA (Binhai Zhu) (07/22/90)

  I am building a Latex biblography data base. I
want to know whether anybody can tell me how to
keep comments in the database while not use the
comments in the paper. For example,

   @BOOK{kn:Tar83,
         Author = "R.Tarjan",
   	 title = " Data strusture ",
         Date = "1983"}

   If I want to put the comment (QA 76.8 I230) in
the database and I don't want the biblography
produced in my paper contains (QA 76.8 I230),
what should I do?

       Thanks in advance.

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dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (07/22/90)

In article <12972@yunexus.YorkU.CA>, s442215@nexus..YorkU.CA (Binhai Zhu) writes...

>  I am building a Latex biblography data base. I
>want to know whether anybody can tell me how to
>keep comments in the database while not use the
>comments in the paper. For example,

>   @BOOK{kn:Tar83,
>         Author = "R.Tarjan",
>   	 title = " Data strusture ",
>         Date = "1983"}

>   If I want to put the comment (QA 76.8 I230) in
>the database and I don't want the biblography
>produced in my paper contains (QA 76.8 I230),
>what should I do?

I would suggest looking the LaTeX book, p. 144:

    "BibTeX ignores any field that is not required or optional,
    so you can include any fields you want in a bib file entry.
    It's a good idea to put all relevant information about a
    reference in its bib file entry--even though information that
    may never appear in the bibliography. For example, if you
    want to keep an abstract of a file in a computer file, put it
    in an abstract field the paper's bib file entry."

-dh

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