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+getrefs.zip: 29. July 1998
+
+This package contains a BibTeX style file and a LaTeX2e document
+template to facilitate the retrieval of references from a library.
+Here is the idea, posted as a question to comp.text.tex in July 1998:
+
+ When I read a paper I normally find a few references interesting, but
+ can't retrieve them immediately, be it because my desk is not in the
+ library, or because the library doesn't carry the stuff, anyway, and I
+ have to pile up a few references before travelling to another library
+ (or ordering copies). So, I put all these references in my BibTeX data
+ base with a distinctive tag ('get ref'), and once in a while I output
+ only those in a separate file, type set them and go wild in the
+ library.
+
+ Now, I'd love to have a BibTeX style that allows me to obtain the type
+ set version of this BibTeX input file sorted first according to source
+ (say, 'J. Phys. B' before 'Phys. Rev.' before 'Phys. Rev. B' before
+ 'Zeitschrift f\"ur Physik' etc.), and within each group ordered
+ according to year, and within this according to volume, possibly down
+ to issue and page number.
+
+ This would make life a lot easier for me or for who ever I ask to
+ retrieve the papers for me, especially when some stuff is on micro
+ film, other journals on display, others in storage etc.
+
+ Is there anything like this out there, or is it easy to cook up
+ something like this?
+
+
+With the help of Nicolas Holzschuch and the BibTeX author, Oren
+Patashnik, the problem was easily solved. Nicolas emailed me the
+suggestion for a modification of an existing BibTeX style file, Oren
+made a few suggestions to make the sorting and handling of page ranges a
+bit more robust, and there it was. I don't think I would have been able
+to cook this up in a reasonable amount of time w/o reading the 'LaTeX
+companion' again, so the credit really ought to go to those two people.
+I just want to make the result available to avoid doubling of efforts,
+since I think I am not the only one who could benefit from such a
+solution.
+
+I have chosen to modify the 'abbrv' style file and rename it to
+'getrefs.bst', which together with the included 'getrefs.tex'
+accomplishes the desired result.
+
+Once you have put the BibTeX style file 'getrefs.bst' in a directory
+searched by (e.g. the one where your other *.bst files reside)
+and a copy of 'getrefs.tex' in your tex input path, only the following
+steps are needed:
+
+1. Extract from your BibTeX data base file(s) all entries for which you
+ want to retrieve the papers from the library, and copy them into a
+ separate file, say, getrefs.bib.
+
+ (I label the title field as 'no idea yet -- get ref!', so it is easy
+ to extract the entries with tools such as bibtool (from CTAN) or even
+ sed.)
+
+2. Run LaTeX and BibTeX on the file getrefs.tex:
+
+ latex getrefs
+ bibtex getrefs
+ latex getrefs
+ latex getrefs
+
+3. Print the resulting getrefs.dvi file.
+
+4. Find someone to go to the library for you ...
+
+
+Have fun! Stefan A. Deutscher (sad@utk.edu) 05-Nov-1998