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@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
-00readme.txt for amsrefs 2.0 [2004-06-30]
+00readme.txt for amsrefs 2.02 [2007/10/01]
-See also install.txt and manifest.txt. There is a history of changes at
-the end of this file.
+See also install.txt. There is a history of changes at the end of this
+file.
+
+This material is copyrighted by the American Mathematical society and
+released subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. See individual
+files for additional information.
Please send bug reports and questions to tech-support@ams.org.
@@ -13,15 +17,15 @@ 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.
+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.
+User documentation is in amsrdoc.pdf and amsrefs.faq.
Technical documentation (including documentation for package writers)
is in amsrefs.pdf.
@@ -29,7 +33,7 @@ is in amsrefs.pdf.
========================================================================
I. FEATURES
----Preservation of structure.
+-- 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
@@ -37,17 +41,17 @@ 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.
+-- Deferred formatting.
This means that the style of the bibliography can be changed on demand
-without reimporting everything from the original database(s).
+without re-importing everything from the original database(s).
----More natural data format for titles.
+-- 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.
+-- 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
@@ -57,28 +61,28 @@ Saunders) versus Stephen H. Lane (Lane, Stephen H.), or Cam Van Tran
BibTeX some of these would need to have extra braces added to ensure
that the surname is accurately distinguished.
----Author-year citations.
+-- Author-year citations.
There is integrated support for citations in author-year form.
----Back-reference support.
+-- Back-reference support.
Works in conjunction with the hyperref package.
----Setup requires only LaTeX knowledge.
+-- 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.
+-- 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.
+-- 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
@@ -93,51 +97,61 @@ II. GETTING STARTED
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.
+ 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.
+ 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).
+ 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.
+This is a bug-fix release. No new features have been implemented and,
+except for bug fixes, this version should be backwards compatible with
+version 2.0.
========================================================================
-IV. SETTING UP A CUSTOM BIBLIOGRAPHY STYLE
+IV. CHANGE LOG
-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.
+2004-06-30 amsrefs.dtx 2.0
-========================================================================
-V. CHANGE LOG
+ * Major rewrite of internals. See changes.pdf for information on
+ the user-visible changes.
+
+2006-10-25 amsrefs.dtx 2.02
+
+ -- Updated copyright and license fields.
+ -- Numerous bug fixes.
-*amsrefs.dtx 2.0 2004-06-30 11:24:39 EDT
+ * amsrefs.dtx 2.02:
+ -- Fixed bug in copying cross-referenced entries from .ltb files
+ to the .bbl file.
+ -- Fixed disappearing table of contents when used with AMS
+ document classes.
+ -- Enabled xrefs in more fields.
+ -- Fixed spacing problems with \MR. Also be more forgiving if
+ the argument to \MR begins with "MR" or "MR ".
+ -- Added support for showlabels.sty.
+ -- Fixed some bugs in the interaction with hyperref.
+ -- Removed support for the obsolete beta and jpa package options.
-Major rewrite of internals. See changes.pdf for information on the
-user-visible changes.
+ * amsxport.dtx 2.01:
+ -- Fixed bug in sort order of references.