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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label biblatex</title>
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-<h3>Replacing the BibTeX&ndash;LaTeX mechanism</h3>
+<h3>Replacing the BibTeX&#8211;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 &ldquo;real-world&rdquo; use.
+be ready for &#8220;real-world&#8221; 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&rsquo;s difficult to learn, but since there are
-few opportunities to write the language, it&rsquo;s also difficult to become
+most current programmers: it&#8217;s difficult to learn, but since there are
+few opportunities to write the language, it&#8217;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&hellip;which hasn&rsquo;t (yet) appeared.
+BibTeX 1.0&#8230;which hasn&#8217;t (yet) appeared.
<p/>In the absence of BibTeX 1.0, what do we need from the bibliography
-system of the future? &mdash; simple: a superset of what BibTeX does
+system of the future? &#8212; 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&rsquo;s language feels familiar to the existing user of
-BibTeX, but it&rsquo;s redesigned in an object-oriented style, and looks
+CrossTeX&#8217;s language feels familiar to the existing user of
+BibTeX, but it&#8217;s redesigned in an object-oriented style, and looks
(to a non-user) as if it may well be adequately flexible.
-<p/>CrossTeX&rsquo;s team respond to queries, and seem well aware of the
+<p/>CrossTeX&#8217;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&rsquo;s support.
+BibTeX. Both are heavily dependent on LaTeX&#8217;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>&rsquo;s own style; the style of citations and of the
+<i>biblatex</i>&#8217;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&rsquo;s
+<p/><i>Biblatex</i> is released as experimental software, but it&#8217;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
-&ldquo;stable&rdquo; <i>biblatex</i> 1.0.
+&#8220;stable&#8221; <i>biblatex</i> 1.0.
<p/>A related project is
<a href="http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/"><i>biber</a></i>
-(it&rsquo;s called <i>biblatex-biber</i> on SourceForge simply to
+(it&#8217;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
-&lsquo;traditional&rsquo; BibTeX interface, <i>biber</i> provides an
+&#8216;traditional&#8217; 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.
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