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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 9bece3e6f2d..36419bb1bf0 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 1.14 2012/11/10 14:25:12 rf10 Exp rf10 $ +% $Id: faq-biblio.tex,v 1.15 2014/01/28 18:17:36 rf10 Exp rf10 $ \section{Bibliographies and citations} @@ -97,19 +97,24 @@ styles are written is pretty obscure, and one would not recommend anyone who's not a confident programmer to write their own, though minor changes to an existing style may be within the grasp of many. -If your style isn't too `far out', you can probably generate it by -using the facilities of the \Package{custom-bib} bundle. This +If your style isn't too `far out', you can probably avoid programming +it by using the facilities of the \Package{custom-bib} bundle. The bundle contains a file \File{makebst.tex}, which runs you through a text menu -to produce a file of instructions, with which you can generate your +to produce a file of instructions, which you can then use to 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. +of document, but the \Package{custom-bib}'s ``master \BibTeX{} +styles'' already offer significantly more than the \BibTeX{} standard set. -An alternative, which is increassingly often recommended, to use +An alternative, which is increasingly 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. +started to appear. Note.bowever There are not as many of +\Package{biblatex}'s contributed styles as there are for \bibtex{}, +and there is no \Package{custom-biblatex}, both of which suggest that +beginners' r\"ole models are hard to come by. As a result, beginners +should probably resist the temptation to write their own contributed +\package{biblatex} style. \begin{ctanrefs} \item[biblatex.sty]\CTANref{biblatex} \item[biblatex \nothtml{\normalfont}contributed styles]\CTANref{biblatex-contrib} @@ -386,10 +391,10 @@ There is good reason to use the \Package{url} or \Package{hyperref} packages in this context: \BibTeX{} has a habit of splitting lines it considers excessively long, and if there are no space characters for it to use as `natural' breakpoints, \BibTeX{} will -insert a comment (`\texttt{\textpercent}') character~\dots{}\@ which -is an acceptable character in an \acro{URL}. Any current version of the -\Package{url} or \Package{hyperref} package detects this -``\texttt{\textpercent}--end-of-line'' structure in its argument, and +insert a comment (`\texttt{\textpercent{}}') character~\dots{}\@ which +is an acceptable character in an \acro{URL}. Any current version of +either of the \Package{url} or \Package{hyperref} packages detects this +``\texttt{\textpercent{}}--end-of-line'' structure in its argument, and removes it. \begin{ctanrefs} \item[babelbib \nothtml{\rmfamily}bundle]\CTANref{babelbib} |