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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2011-02-19 00:37:41 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2011-02-19 00:37:41 +0000 |
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tree | ff1781fa9b83db1e66c931962c18f57ae3428294 /Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-biblio.tex | |
parent | 09eb455bf0a899e9231b600e1326d5e0e4a67aca (diff) |
FAQ-en 3.21 (18feb11)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-biblio.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-biblio.tex index d27c54f6564..8f94cd6d17c 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-biblio.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-biblio.tex @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -% $Id: faq-biblio.tex,v 1.8 2010/07/08 20:29:21 rf10 Exp rf10 $ +% $Id: faq-biblio.tex,v 1.10 2011/02/13 23:08:45 rf10 Exp $ \section{Bibliographies and citations} @@ -89,9 +89,8 @@ in this endeavour: \Question[Q-custbib]{Creating a bibliography style} It \emph{is} possible to write your own: the standard bibliography -styles are distributed in a commented form, and there is a description -of the language (see -% beware line-wrap +styles are distributed in a form with many comments, and there is a description +of the language in the \bibtex{} distribution (see % ! line wrap \Qref[question]{BibTeX documentation}{Q-BibTeXing}). However, it must be admitted that the language in which \BibTeX{} styles are written is pretty obscure, and one would not recommend @@ -105,8 +104,16 @@ to produce a file of instructions, with which you can generate your own \extension{bst} file. This technique doesn't offer entirely new styles of document, but the system's ``master \BibTeX{} styles'' already offer significantly more than the \BibTeX{} standard set. + +An alternative, which is increassingly often recommended, to use +\Qref*{\Package{biblatex}}{Q-biblatex}. \Package{Biblatex} offers +many hooks for adjusting the format of the output of your `basic' +\bibtex{} style, and a collection of `contributed' styles have also +started to appear. \begin{ctanrefs} -\item[\nothtml{\normalfont}\BibTeX{} documentation]\CTANref{bibtex-doc} +\item[biblatex.sty]\CTANref{biblatex} +\item[biblatex \nothtml{\normalfont}contributed styles]\CTANref{biblatex-contrib} +\item[\nothtml{\normalfont}\BibTeX{} documentation]\CTANref{bibtex} \item[makebst.tex]Distributed with \CTANref{custom-bib} \end{ctanrefs} |