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- From: tpe@IDA.LiU.SE (Tommy Persson)
- Subject: New BibFrame release
- Message-ID: <TPE.92Nov9033417@panix.IDA.LiU.SE>
- Sender: news@ida.liu.se
- Organization: CIS Dept, University of Linkoping, Sweden
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:34:21 GMT
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-
- I have made the latest version (0.4.0) of BibFrame available for
- anonymous ftp from ida.liu.se (130.236.139.139). This is the new
- "official" place for BibFrame. The file's name is
- bibframe-0.4.0.tar.Z and it is placed in pub/bibframe. If you do not
- have access to ftp I can send the file by email.
-
- In pub/bibframe there is a file latextoframe-0.1.tar.Z. This is a
- script that uses BibFrame and la2mml to convert a standard latex-file
- with references to a mml-file.
-
- I also placed the ChangeLog file for BibFrame in pub/bibframe.
-
- BibFrame is a system that makes it possible to use BibTeX in a
- convenient way in FrameMaker. It ought to work on most Unix machines.
-
- Essential changes from previous version:
-
- - Some changes to be able to use BibFrame with OLframe.
-
- - Some bug fixes.
-
- - There is now a perl version. This is probably the only version I
- am going to develop further. I am planning to fix some "citesort"
- and try to make it more convenient to use BibFrame with book-files
- and I think this is hard to do only using shell-scripts.
-
- The perl version is is the most developed version in this
- distribution (also the least tested version). The bibstyle can be
- specified in a user variable. Other styles then plain, alpha and
- mapalike can therefore be used in a convenient way. In the
- distribution unsrt and abbrv are added. The second new thing is
- that it works to have explicit references (\cite{key}) in the
- entries in the bib-file. It works by requiring that the sequence
- ESC-bb ESC-bi is repeated until the inserted reference list is not
- changed.
-
-
- -------------------
-
- Here are some parts of a local user guide to bibframe:
-
- Introduction
- ============
-
- BibFrame makes it possible to deal with references in FrameMaker in a
- general way. You do not have to enter your reference list by hand
- every time you write a document. Instead, the reference list is
- automatically generated from a data base with references. This ensure
- that your reference entries are in the right format. You do not have
- to bother with how things should be emphasized, abbreviated and so on.
-
- You have a database with references. The format of the references is
- the same format that is used by BibTeX. That means that people using
- LaTeX and FrameMaker can use the same data base.
-
- Currently it is possible to use the bibliography styles ``plain'', ``alpha'',
- ``mapalike'', ``unsrt'' and ``abbrv''.
-
- How to use it
- =============
-
- To create a key entry in FrameMaker you write the ``key'' and then
- ESC-bk. The ``key'' is the name you have used in your reference
- database to identify the entry. The point must be directly after the
- key and there must be a space or no character at all directly after
- the key. This does not work if the key contains non-letter characters.
- So there is an alternative way to create a key entry. Select the key
- and type ESC-bm.
-
- To generate a ``shortcite''-key (only for mapalike) type ESC-bsk
- respectively ESC-bsm.
-
- To generate the reference list in ``plain''-style and get the right
- reference number in the document you type ESC-bb.
-
- To get the document in ``draft mode'' you type ESC-bd.
-
- If you for some reason want to use the ``alpha''-style you type ESC-ba
- and if you want to use the ``mapalike''-style you type ESC-bp.
-
- To insert the reference list in the document you place the point where
- you want the list. Then you type ESC-bi. If the reference list is not
- in the correct font you change that by changing the font in the
- paragraph Reference.
-
- --
- Tommy Persson ! A finger! And as you can
- Linkoping University ! see it is better designed
- Department of Computer and Information Science ! for pressing buttons than
- Sweden ! holding writing implements.
- tpe@ida.liu.se ! -- Tarrant, Blake's Seven --
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