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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-custbib.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-custbib.html index b3db0c6e4f4..2a4f50df3a7 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-custbib.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-custbib.html @@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ </head><body> <h3>Creating a bibliography style</h3> <p/>It <em>is</em> possible to write your own: the standard bibliography -styles are distributed in a commented form, and there is a description -of the language (see - +styles are distributed in a form with many comments, and there is a description +of the language in the BibTeX distribution (see <a href="FAQ-BibTeXing.html">BibTeX documentation</a>). However, it must be admitted that the language in which BibTeX styles are written is pretty obscure, and one would not recommend @@ -18,8 +17,15 @@ to produce a file of instructions, with which you can generate your own <code>.bst</code> file. This technique doesn’t offer entirely new styles of document, but the system’s “master BibTeX styles” already offer significantly more than the BibTeX standard set. +<p/>An alternative, which is increassingly often recommended, to use +<a href="FAQ-biblatex.html"><i>biblatex</i></a>. <i>Biblatex</i> offers +many hooks for adjusting the format of the output of your ‘basic’ +BibTeX style, and a collection of ‘contributed’ styles have also +started to appear. <dl> -<dt><tt><i>BibTeX documentation</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc.zip">biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/bibtex.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>biblatex contributed styles</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib">macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib</a> +<dt><tt><i>BibTeX documentation</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/base.zip">biblio/bibtex/base</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/base/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/bibtex.html">catalogue entry</a> <dt><tt><i>makebst.tex</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib.zip">macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/custom-bib.html">catalogue entry</a> </dl> <p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=custbib">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=custbib</a> |