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diff --git a/support/references/README b/support/references/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fd4fa5dbb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/support/references/README @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +============================================================================= +REFERENCES Bibliographic Software Version 4.3d + (c) Volker Kiefel, 1995-2007 +============================================================================= +Summary: REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of scientific +manuscripts and for management of bibliographic data of ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, +of BOOKS, of CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and other document types including notes and +electronic documents. REFERENCES supports LaTeX including BibTeX. +Bibliographic records in MEDLINE format are easily imported. Retrieval of +references is possible by keywords, authors' or editors' names, date of +publication, title of article, book title, journal name and other data fields. +Lists of references and formatted citations in the text can be compiled in any +bibliographic style required by the publishers of scientific journals. +REFERENCES is provided with a text based console interface compiled for +win32-systems and as Linux port. An external text editor is required for +editing data. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Installation: + +This complete distribution of REFERENCES v4.3d comprises the files +(corresponding .zip and .exe-files have the same contents): + + r43d.zip OR r43d.exe (win32 binary files, sample database, documentation) + refs-4.3d-src.tar.gz (source code: Linux, win32) + refs-4.3d-rt.tar.gz (Linux "runtime" files: sample database, documentation) + +Please read the instructions for installation in `refsdok.pdf' which can be +found in r43d.zip, r43d.exe or refs-4.3d-rt.tar.gz. On win32 systems, create +the directory c:\refs43 and extract r43d.exe or r43d.zip into this directory. +Version history may be found in `history.txt', for license issues, please read +COPYING. + +References for win32 includes a win32 implementation of AWK (Kernighan's awk +dated 04.05.2007). Source code for AWK may be found on Brian Kernighan's +website http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/index.html +============================================================================= +Detailed description: + +REFERENCES is bibliographic software designed to generate lists of +bibliographic references and citations in scientific manuscripts in any format +(defined by bibliographic styles) required by scientific journals. +Bibliographic styles can be created by the user. REFERENCES can also be used +as a database to process information on bibliographic data: references may be +searched according to keywords, name(s) of authors or editors, title, year of +publication and other items. The current version supports document types: + +(1) articles in journals/periodicals with personal/institutional author(s), +(2) complete books with personal/institutional editor(s), +(3) articles or chapters in books, +(4) various document types with personal or institutional author(s). + +REFERENCES is primarily designed to support writing manuscripts with +LaTeX/BibTeX (among other features, bibliographic data may be exported in +BibTeX format), it also supports OpenOffice.org/StarOffice writer and other +text processors. + +REFERENCES is written in C as console application. Data are manipulated in a +`binary' database format. To make transfer easy, all data and bibliographic +styles can be exported into a documented text format (and -- if necessary -- +checked by hand for consistency). REFERENCES is used interactively with menus +at a command prompt. For input and editing data, a text editor is required +(not included in the distribution). An implementation of awk is required for +some scripts included with the win32 REFERENCES distribution (for Linux it is +assumed that [g]awk is provided with the system). + +REFERENCES is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL +PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF). +============================================================================= +Short description: + +Bibliographic software supporting LaTeX/BibTeX +============================================================================= +Announcement of v4.3d: + +REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of scientific manuscripts and +for management of bibliographic data. + +Updated and new bibliographic and macro format definitions are made available +on the project homepage: + + http://references.sourceforge.net + +Beginning with v4.3, References is provided as Linux program and a win32 +application. Encoding of the internal data representation and of .arr, .fd +and text files has been changed. Less can now be uses for reading text files. + +Volker Kiefel +August 2007 +============================================================================= |