[comp.text.tex] BiBTeX customization?

schmidt@cs.iastate.edu (William J. Schmidt) (07/14/90)

I have always been unhappy with some of the style decisions made by 
the designer of BiBTeX.  Currently I use BiBTeX to create a bibliography
file and then make extensive changes to it to correct these inconsistencies
in style (such as sometimes representing pages by "pages" and sometimes
by "pp.").  Is it possible that there is an easy way to customize the
way these entries come out every time?
--
William J. Schmidt
Iowa State University
schmidt@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu

dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (07/15/90)

In article <2250@dino.cs.iastate.edu>, schmidt@cs.iastate.edu (William J. Schmidt) writes...

>I have always been unhappy with some of the style decisions made by 
>the designer of BiBTeX.  Currently I use BiBTeX to create a bibliography
>file and then make extensive changes to it to correct these inconsistencies
>in style (such as sometimes representing pages by "pages" and sometimes
>by "pp.").  

Huh? How are you generating the page number entries in your bib
files? I use 
  pages = "34--55"
and my page number entries come out consistent all the time.

>Is it possible that there is an easy way to customize the
>way these entries come out every time?

Yep. It's called the Bibliography style file. The documentation
for these things is stored in the file btxhak.tex (if you don't
have a copy locally, you can FTP it from ymir.claremont.edu in
[anonymous.tex.sources.bibtex0_99]

-dh


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