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-% $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}