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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label nocite*</title>
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<h3>Listing all your BibTeX entries</h3>
-<p>LaTeX and BibTeX co-operate to offer special treatment of this
+<p/>LaTeX and BibTeX co-operate to offer special treatment of this
requirement. The command <code>\</code><code>nocite{*}</code> is specially treated,
and causes BibTeX to generate bibliography entries for every entry
in each <code>.bib</code> file listed in your <code>\</code><code>bibliography</code> statement, so
that after a LaTeX&ndash;BibTeX&ndash;LaTeX sequence, you have a
document with the whole thing listed.
-<p>Note that LaTeX <em>doesn&rsquo;t</em> produce
+<p/>Note that LaTeX <em>doesn&rsquo;t</em> produce
&ldquo;<code>Citation ... undefined</code>&rdquo; or
&ldquo;<code>There were undefined references</code>&rdquo; warnings in respect of
@@ -16,5 +16,16 @@ document with the whole thing listed.
LaTeX &ldquo;by hand&rdquo; (you <em>know</em> exactly how many times you have
to run things), but the lack might confuse automatic processors that
scan the log file to determine whether another run is necessary.
-<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nocite*">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nocite*</a>
+<p/>A couple of packages are available, that aim to reduce the impact of
+<code>\</code><code>nocite{*}</code> of a large citation database. <i>Biblist</i>
+was written for use under LaTeX 2.09, but seems to work well enough;
+<i>listbib</i> is more modern. Both provide their own
+<code>.bst</code> files. (The impact of large databases was significant
+in the old days of LaTeX systems with very little free memory; this
+problem is less significant now than it once was.)
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>biblist.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/biblist.zip">macros/latex209/contrib/biblist</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/biblist.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/biblist/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>listbib.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listbib.zip">macros/latex/contrib/listbib</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listbib.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listbib/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nocite*">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nocite*</a>
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