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Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal
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Rasmus |
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Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal |
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Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:40:03 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
>> Biblatex is the gold standard. Maybe not in input-aesthetics..., but in
>> terms of amenability, usability and output it surely is. (No, I have
>> nothing to back this up).
>
> Compare the bibtex style, chicago.bst, with biblatex-chicago and note
> how much more closely the biblatex version approximates the Chicago
> Manual of Style.
Before biblatex-chicago, I used to generate my own bst files with
custom-bib. It was awful 'cause I would often answer questions wrong and
would have to start over...
> Also, biber is required for some biblatex features that bibtex doesn't
> support. I haven't followed this development and am not sure what they
> are, though.
My understanding is that a major limitation of bibtex was that it didn't
handle sorting of anything more complex than [a-zA-Z]. Bibtex8 extended
this, but you still needed special support, see e.g. dk-bib on CTAN.
Lars Madsen, of "Avoid eqnarray!"-fame (and much else in the TeX-verse),
has an excellent intro in Danish. If my memory serves me correctly,
earlier β-versions had instructions on how to do hacks to get better
support when writing in Danish.
—Rasmus
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- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, (continued)
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Aaron Ecay, 2015/02/15
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Nicolas Goaziou, 2015/02/15
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Aaron Ecay, 2015/02/15
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Nicolas Goaziou, 2015/02/15
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Rasmus, 2015/02/15
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Stefan Nobis, 2015/02/16
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Richard Lawrence, 2015/02/16
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Nicolas Goaziou, 2015/02/16
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Rasmus, 2015/02/16
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Thomas S. Dye, 2015/02/16
- Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal,
Rasmus <=
Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, John Kitchin, 2015/02/15
Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal, Eric S Fraga, 2015/02/16