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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-biblatex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-biblatex.html index ef6c25db193..7c5407d7892 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-biblatex.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-biblatex.html @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ <head> <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label biblatex</title> </head><body> -<h3>Replacing the BibTeX–LaTeX mechanism</h3> +<h3>Replacing the BibTeX–LaTeX mechanism</h3> <p/>Producing a successor to BibTeX has long been a favoured activity among a certain class of TeX-users; the author has seen reports of progress (on several projects), over the years, but few that claim to -be ready for “real-world” use. +be ready for “real-world” use. <p/>Few would deny that BibTeX is ripe for renewal: as originally conceived, it was a program for creating bibliographies for technical documents, in English. People have contributed mechanisms for a @@ -13,32 +13,32 @@ degree of multilingual use (whose techniques are arcane, and quite likely inextensible); and specialist BibTeX style files are available for use in non-technical papers. <p/>BibTeX uses a style language whose mechanisms are unfamiliar to -most current programmers: it’s difficult to learn, but since there are -few opportunities to write the language, it’s also difficult to become +most current programmers: it’s difficult to learn, but since there are +few opportunities to write the language, it’s also difficult to become fluent (in the way that so many people fluently write the equally arcane TeX macro language). <p/>Oren Patashnik (the author of BibTeX) summarises the issues as he sees them, in a <a href="http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-1/patashnik.pdf">TUG conference paper from 2003</a> that seems to suggest that we might expect a -BibTeX 1.0…which hasn’t (yet) appeared. +BibTeX 1.0…which hasn’t (yet) appeared. <p/>In the absence of BibTeX 1.0, what do we need from the bibliography -system of the future? — simple: a superset of what BibTeX does +system of the future? — simple: a superset of what BibTeX does (or can be made to do), implemented in a simpler style language, with coherent multilingual capabilities. <p/>Of the direct BibTeX replacements, the only one whose authors have sufficient confidence to submit to CTAN is CrossTeX. -CrossTeX’s language feels familiar to the existing user of -BibTeX, but it’s redesigned in an object-oriented style, and looks +CrossTeX’s language feels familiar to the existing user of +BibTeX, but it’s redesigned in an object-oriented style, and looks (to a non-user) as if it may well be adequately flexible. -<p/>CrossTeX’s team respond to queries, and seem well aware of the +<p/>CrossTeX’s team respond to queries, and seem well aware of the need for multilingual support. CrossTeX is probably a development to watch. <p/>Two interesting alternative approaches, that the author has investigated, are <i>amsrefs</i> and <i>biblatex</i>. <i>Amsrefs</i> does away with BibTeX altogether, while <i>biblatex</i> (at least for now) makes rather limited use of -BibTeX. Both are heavily dependent on LaTeX’s support. +BibTeX. Both are heavily dependent on LaTeX’s support. <p/><i>Amsrefs</i> uses a transformed <code>.bib</code> file, which is expressed as LaTeX macros. (The package provides a BibTeX style that performs the transformation, so that a LaTeX source containing @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ a <code>\</code><code>nocite{*}</code> command enables BibTeX to produce a usabl <p/><i>Amsrefs</i> is maintained by the AMS as part of its author support programme, <p/><i>Biblatex</i> uses BibTeX simply to sort the citations using -<i>biblatex</i>’s own style; the style of citations and of the +<i>biblatex</i>’s own style; the style of citations and of the bibliography itself is determined by the way your <i>biblatex</i> style has been set up. This structure eliminates the collections of BibTeX styles, at a stroke; the package comes with a basic set of @@ -56,21 +56,21 @@ time. The author, Philipp Lehman, evaluated the whole field of bibliography software before starting, and as a result the package comes with answers to many of the questions asked in the bibliography sections of these FAQs. -<p/><i>Biblatex</i> is released as experimental software, but it’s +<p/><i>Biblatex</i> is released as experimental software, but it’s clear that many users are already using it happily; Lehman is responsive to problem reports, at the moment, but a set of expert users is already establishing itself. A set of contributed styles has appeared, which cover some of the trickier bibliography styles. The road map of the project shows one more <em>beta</em> release before the -“stable” <i>biblatex</i> 1.0. +“stable” <i>biblatex</i> 1.0. <p/>A related project is <a href="http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/"><i>biber</a></i> -(it’s called <i>biblatex-biber</i> on SourceForge simply to +(it’s called <i>biblatex-biber</i> on SourceForge simply to distinguish it from an older, defunct, BibTeX replacement project). <i>Biber</i> is a <i>Perl</i>-based system to produce a BibTeX replacement that is specifically tuned to the requirements of <i>biblatex</i>. While it supports the -‘traditional’ BibTeX interface, <i>biber</i> provides an +‘traditional’ BibTeX interface, <i>biber</i> provides an interface language designed for <i>biblatex</i>, including use of Unicode to ease the generation of multilingual citations. <dl> |