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@@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ 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
-fewer opportunities to write the language, it&rsquo;s also difficult to become
+few opportunities to write the language, it&rsquo;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&rsquo;t (yet) appeared.
+BibTeX 1.0&hellip;which hasn&rsquo;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
(or can be made to do), implemented in a simpler style language, with
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ 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> makes rather limited use of BibTeX. Both are
-heavily dependent on LaTeX&rsquo;s support.
+<i>biblatex</i> (at least for now) makes rather limited use of
+BibTeX. Both are heavily dependent on LaTeX&rsquo;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
@@ -64,23 +64,23 @@ 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.
<p/>A related project is
-<a href="http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/"><i>biber</a></i> (or
-<i>biblatex-biber</i>, 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 &lsquo;traditional&rsquo; BibTeX, <i>biber</i> aims at an
-interface language that is closely tuned to the requirements of
-<i>biblatex</i>, including use of a Unicode-based character set to
-ease the generation multilingual citations.
+<a href="http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/"><i>biber</a></i>
+(it&rsquo;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
+interface language designed for <i>biblatex</i>, including use of
+Unicode to ease the generation of multilingual citations.
<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>amsrefs.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/amsrefs.zip">macros/latex/contrib/amsrefs</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/amsrefs/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>biblatex.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex.zip">macros/latex/exptl/biblatex</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>biblatex contributions</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archivemacros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/">macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/</a>
-<dt><tt><i>CrossTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archivebiblio/crosstex/">biblio/crosstex/</a>
+<dt><tt><i>amsrefs.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/amsrefs.zip">macros/latex/contrib/amsrefs</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/amsrefs/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>biblatex.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex.zip">macros/latex/exptl/biblatex</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>biblatex contributions</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/">macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/</a>
+<dt><tt><i>CrossTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/crosstex/">biblio/crosstex/</a>
</dl>
-<p/>
-<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>
+
+<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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