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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label biblatex</title>
-</head><body>
-<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 &#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
-degree of multilingual use (whose techniques are arcane, and quite
-likely inextensible), while an extension (<i>bibtex8</i>) allows
-use with 8-bit character codes, thus providing some multilingual
-capabilities. In addition, 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&#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 &#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? &#8212; simple: a superset of what BibTeX does
-(or can be made to do), preferably implementing a simpler style
-language, and with coherent multilingual capabilities.
-<p/>There are two parts to a bibliography system; processing the database
-of citations, and typesetting the results. The existing BibTeX
-system provides a means of processing the database, and there are
-macros built into LaTeX, as well as many LaTeX packages, that
-process the results.
-<p/>Of the direct BibTeX replacements, only two have been submitted to
-CTAN: CrossTeX and <i>biber</i>.
-<p/>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. It is said
-to operate as a BibTeX replacement.
-<p/>CrossTeX&#8217;s team respond to queries, and seem well aware of the
-need for multilingual support, though it isn&#8217;t currently offered.
-<p/><i>Biber</i> is intimately associated with the LaTeX package
-<i>biblatex</i>; it is logically a BibTeX replacement, but is also
-capable of using bibliography databases in its own
-<i>biblatexml</i> (XML-based) format. <i>Biblatex</i>
-can also use BibTeX, but <i>biber</i> opens up a far wider
-range of possibilities, including full Unicode support.
-<p/><i>Biblatex</i> is a processor for the output of an application
-such as <i>biber</i> or BibTeX; the style of citations and of
-the bibliography itself (in your document) is determined by the way
-your <i>biblatex</i> style has been set up, not on some
-BibTeX-LaTeX package combination. <i>Biblatex</i>&#8217;s
-structure thus eliminates the collections of BibTeX styles, at a
-stroke; it comes with a basic set of styles, and details are
-determined by options, set at package loading time. The author,
-Philipp Lehman, evaluated the whole field of bibliography software
-before starting, and as a result the package provides answers to
-many of the questions asked in the bibliography sections of these
-FAQs.
-<p/><i>Biblatex</i> was 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 <em>de facto</em>
-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 that we are
-now working on the final <em>beta</em> releases before the &#8220;stable&#8221;
-<i>biblatex</i> 1.0.
-<p/>Finally, <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 a <code>\</code><code>nocite{*}</code> command enables BibTeX to
-produce a usable <i>amsrefs</i> bibliography database.)
-<p/><i>Amsrefs</i> is maintained by the AMS as part of its author
-support programme,
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>amsrefs.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/amsrefs.zip">macros/latex/contrib/amsrefs</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/amsrefs/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/amsrefs.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>biber</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/biber.zip">biblio/biber</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/biber/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biber.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>biblatex.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex.zip">macros/latex/contrib/biblatex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>bibtex8</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/8-bit">biblio/bibtex/8-bit</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/bibtex8bit.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>biblatex contributions</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib">macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib</a>
-<dt><tt><i>CrossTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/crosstex">biblio/crosstex</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/crosstex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p/>
-
-
-<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=biblatex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=biblatex</a>
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