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The basic citation command remains more or less the same as -in standard LaTeX (\cite), but a number of additional variations address -certain known pitfalls or gaps in the standard LaTeX set of citation -features. - -The command for bibliography items is different---\bib instead of -\bibitem---for reasons that will be evident upon further reading in the -documentation. - -A set of BibTeX style files are provided to allow people to extract -data from .bib files and produce .bbl files in amsrefs format instead -of conventional \bibitem format. - -User documentation is in amsrdoc.pdf. - -Technical documentation (including documentation for package writers) -is in amsrefs.pdf. - -======================================================================== -I. FEATURES - ----Preservation of structure. - -The internal structural information of the bibliography entries is not -lost when they are imported from the database file into the LaTeX -document. This takes on its greatest significance when archiving -documents in LaTeX form or transmitting them to another user (such as a -publisher). - ----Deferred formatting. - -This means that the style of the bibliography can be changed on demand -without reimporting everything from the original database(s). - ----More natural data format for titles. - -Proper nouns do not need to have braces added to prevent capitalization -problems. - ----Less ambiguous format for author names. - -When author names are given in inverted order (last name first) it is -possible for LaTeX to unambiguously identify the last name without any -further markup, even in cases like Saunders Mac Lane (Mac Lane, -Saunders) versus Stephen H. Lane (Lane, Stephen H.), or Cam Van Tran -(Tran, Cam Van) versus Bert Van Keulen (Van Keulen, Bert). In -BibTeX some of these would need to have extra braces added to ensure -that the surname is accurately distinguished. - ----Author-year citations. - -There is integrated support for citations in author-year form. - ----Back-reference support. - -Works in conjunction with the hyperref package. - ----Setup requires only LaTeX knowledge. - -All bibliography setup can be done in LaTeX; learning another -programming language (such as, the one used in BibTeX bst files) is -unnecessary. - ----Self-printable database files. - -A LaTeX document that contains only a bibliography in amsrefs forms can -be used as a database for exporting entries to other documents. And -because it is a LaTeX document, the database can be printed directly at -any time simply by running it through LaTeX in the usual way. - ----Self-contained. - -In many cases it seems possible to do without BibTeX entirely. For -example, if the entries are extracted from a single database file that -is maintained in sorted order, the bibliography can be printed directly -by LaTeX on the first pass and the citations resolved on the second -pass. - -======================================================================== -II. GETTING STARTED - -1. Install the package, referring to install.txt as needed. - -2. There are four example files provided: - - cite-xa : Demonstrates an author-year citation scheme. The - bibliography is embedded in the .tex file instead of - residing in a separate .bbl file. - - cite-xb : Demonstrates usage with more-or-less standard BibTeX - methods. - - cite-xs : Shows how the bbl file can be created by LaTeX itself from a - suitably presorted ltb file. - - cite-xh : A working hyperref/backrefs example. - -3. Run LaTeX on cite-xa.tex. Take a look at the messages that have to do -with citations and the bibliography section. Run LaTeX again to resolve -the citations and check the output. - -4. Run LaTeX on cite-xb.tex. Run BibTeX. Look at the bbl file. -Interesting, huh? Run LaTeX twice more to resolve the citations. - -5. Run LaTeX on cite-xs.tex and look at the output. - -6. Run pdflatex on cite-xh.tex (it is set up to use BibTeX also, like -cite-xb). - -======================================================================== -III. REMARKS ON THIS RELEASE - -This is a thorough overhaul and rewrite of the the amsrefs package. -Many (perhaps even most) of the internals have changed and a number of -new features have been added. Backwards compatibility for documents -created with previous versions of this package has been - -See changes.pdf for information on the user-visible changes. - -======================================================================== -IV. SETTING UP A CUSTOM BIBLIOGRAPHY STYLE - -More documentation is needed here, but the discussion in amsrefs.pdf -should be enough to get you started. See especially sections 4, 6.10, -6.26.15, and 6.27. - -======================================================================== -V. CHANGE LOG - -*amsrefs.dtx 2.0 2004-06-30 11:24:39 EDT - -Major rewrite of internals. See changes.pdf for information on the -user-visible changes. |