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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’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. -<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 -(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’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. It is said -to operate as a BibTeX replacement. -<p/>CrossTeX’s team respond to queries, and seem well aware of the -need for multilingual support, though it isn’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>’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’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 “stable” -<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> -</body> |