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- 32) Where do I find documentation about BibTeX?
-
- BibTeX, a program originally designed to produce bibliographies in
- conjunction with LaTeX, is explained in Section 4.3 and Appendix B
- of Leslie Lamport's LaTeX manual. The ``BibTeXing'' document,
- contained in the file btxdoc.tex, gives a more complete description.
-
- The ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' document, contained in the file
- btxhak.tex, explains the postfix stack-based language used to
- write BibTeX styles (.bst files). The file btxbst.doc is the template
- file for the four standard styles (plain, abbrv, alpha, unsrt). It
- also contains the documentation for them.
-
- The current Unix-BibTeX man page, contained in the file
- bibtex.1, was updated in January 1992 and is about one page long.
- There's an old and obsolete version floating around, written in 1985
- before ``BibTeXing'' and ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' appeared, that is
- several pages long. You should ignore it (or throw it away), since it
- describes BibTeX version 0.98, style files of which are incompatible
- with the current version, 0.99 (to be precise, 0.99c).
-
- All files mentioned in this answer are available via anonymous ftp
- from labrea.stanford.edu (36.8.0.112) in the BibTeX ftp area,
- tex/bibtex. All the non-Unix files should be available on any system
- that runs BibTeX; if they're not on your system, please complain to
- your BibTeX installer or to your distribution source.
-