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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
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Subject: Re: BiBTeX customization?
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Date: 14 Jul 90 21:59:30 GMT
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In article <2250@dino.cs.iastate.edu>, schmidt@cs.iastate.edu (William J. Schmidt) writes...

>I have always been unhappy with some of the style decisions made by 
>the designer of BiBTeX.  Currently I use BiBTeX to create a bibliography
>file and then make extensive changes to it to correct these inconsistencies
>in style (such as sometimes representing pages by "pages" and sometimes
>by "pp.").  

Huh? How are you generating the page number entries in your bib
files? I use 
  pages = "34--55"
and my page number entries come out consistent all the time.

>Is it possible that there is an easy way to customize the
>way these entries come out every time?

Yep. It's called the Bibliography style file. The documentation
for these things is stored in the file btxhak.tex (if you don't
have a copy locally, you can FTP it from ymir.claremont.edu in
[anonymous.tex.sources.bibtex0_99]

-dh


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