Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!mimsy!mojo!alex From: alex@eng.umd.edu (James Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: referencing system Message-ID: <1990Mar17.022700.5255@eng.umd.edu> Date: 17 Mar 90 02:27:00 GMT Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: Merriversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 50 References: <1544@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> <34950@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: University of Maryland, College Park An earlier post on this seems to have been eaten by our news system. Sorry if this duplicates. In article <1544@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes: >In article boubez@caip.rutgers.edu (Toufic Boubez) writes: > >>I finally decided, after years of trying, starting then abandoning in the >>middle, to organise my large collection of papers, articles, etc... > >>I am looking for a referencing system > >Check out BiBTeX, the referencing system associated with the LaTeX type ........................... >convert refer format to BiBTeX if you need it. (DON'T USE refer: it's >getting out of date and BiBTeX is more powerful.) > >>Toufic Boubez >>boubez@caip.rutgers.edu > > Tom Schneider > National Cancer Institute > Laboratory of Mathematical Biology > Frederick, Maryland 21701-1013 > toms@ncifcrf.gov In article <34950@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu (Jane Edwards) writes: >Why not "refer"? It's my impression that at least part of it is standard >UNIX. Also, I have seen several lists of references posted to the net in >this format, making me think that it is widespread. The basic format of >Jane Edwards (edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu) >UC Berkeley It is possible to have both. If you want a powerful database system tied to TeX (however there was no indication of this in the original posting), and want to use refer's database, there is such a bibliographic system. It may have some other advantages for you. It is not specific to LaTeX, but works for any TeX. It has a very fast lookup utility even for large databases. Its use in documents does not require specific keys. And of course, you can use the interactive refer utility for making the database. The system is called tib and is ftp available from the standard TeX archives (june.cs.washington.edu, sun.soe.clarkson.edu, etc.), and I believe it is on the unix TeX tape. James Alexander jca@anna.umd.edu