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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usebibtex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usebibtex.html index 84aad77577f..6b15449dda3 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usebibtex.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usebibtex.html @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ <head> <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label usebibtex</title> </head><body> -<h3>“Normal” use of BibTeX from LaTeX</h3> +<h3>“Normal” use of BibTeX from LaTeX</h3> <p/>To create a bibliography for your document, you need to perform a sequence of steps, some of which seem a bit odd. If you choose to use BibTeX, the sequence is: -<p/>First: you need a BibTeX bibliography file (a <code>.bib</code> file) — see +<p/>First: you need a BibTeX bibliography file (a <code>.bib</code> file) — see -“<a href="FAQ-buildbib.html">creating a BibTeX file</a>”. +“<a href="FAQ-buildbib.html">creating a BibTeX file</a>”. <p/>Second: you must write your LaTeX document to include a declaration -of the ‘style’ of bibliography, citations, and a reference to the +of the ‘style’ of bibliography, citations, and a reference to the bibliography file mentioned in the step 1. So we may have a LaTeX file containing: <blockquote> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Alice struggles~\cite{Carroll:1865}. </blockquote><p> Note: we have bibliography style <i>plain</i>, above, which is nearly the simplest of the lot: a sample text, showing the sorts of -style choices available, can be found on Ken Turner’s web site: +style choices available, can be found on Ken Turner’s web site: <a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html">http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html</a> <p/>Third: you must process the file. <blockquote> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ writes a note of the style to the <code>.aux</code> file; each <code>\</code><code>cite</code> command writes a note of the citation to the <code>.aux</code> file, and the <code>\</code><code>bibliography</code> command writes a note of which <code>.bib</code> file is to be used, to the <code>.aux</code> file. -<p/>Note that, at this stage, LaTeX isn’t “resolving” any of the +<p/>Note that, at this stage, LaTeX isn’t “resolving” any of the citations: at every <code>\</code><code>cite</code> command, LaTeX will warn you of the undefined citation, and when the document finishes, there will be a further warning of undefined references. @@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ further warning of undefined references. bibtex myfile </pre> </blockquote><p> -Don’t try to tell BibTeX anything but the file name: say -<code>bibtex myfile.aux</code> (because you know it’s going to read the +Don’t try to tell BibTeX anything but the file name: say +<code>bibtex myfile.aux</code> (because you know it’s going to read the <code>.aux</code> file) and BibTeX will blindly attempt to process <code>myfile.aux.aux</code>. <p/>BibTeX will scan the <code>.aux</code> file; it will find which bibliography -style it needs to use, and will “compile” that style; it will note +style it needs to use, and will “compile” that style; it will note the citations; it will find which bibliography files it needs, and will run through them matching citations to entries in the bibliography; and finally it will sort the entries that have been @@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ it finds a <code>.bbl</code> file, and reads it. As it encounters each <code>\</code><code>bibitem</code> command in the file, it notes a definition of the citation. <p/>Sixth: you run LaTeX yet again. This time, it finds values for all -the citations, in its <code>.aux</code> file. Other things being equal, you’re -done… until you change the file. +the citations, in its <code>.aux</code> file. Other things being equal, you’re +done… until you change the file. <p/>If, while editing, you change any of the citations, or add new ones, you need to go through the process above from steps 3 (first run of LaTeX) to 6, again, before the document is once again stable. |