Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!odin!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Request for thoughts on using BibTeX. Message-ID: Date: 4 Jul 90 14:57:00 GMT References: <009390BE.5D11CCA0@WIFFIN.CHEM.UCLA.EDU> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 21 In-reply-to: james@abby.chem.ucla.edu's message of 2 Jul 90 04:54:45 GMT In article <009390BE.5D11CCA0@WIFFIN.CHEM.UCLA.EDU> james@abby.chem.ucla.edu (James Wilkinson) writes: I have decided that it is time for our research group to centralize its bibliography information. Since many of you already use large databases of bibliographies, I thought I'd ask how you do it. I could do all this with a simple database, but I want everything to be compatible with LaTeX. How do you have LaTeX and your bibliography database interact? Any suggestions or pointers appreciated. The best technology is IMNHO to use tib. It uses refer format, which vastly more readable and space saving than bibtex, is quite a bit smaller, and has a standalone interrogation utility, just like refer. BibTeX is a monstrosity compared to bib/tib/refer, even more so than TeX compared to troff/scribe. -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk