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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: What'll be the format of comp.bibliography?
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In article <DUPUY.90Aug7212148@hudson.cs.columbia.edu> dupuy@cs.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) writes:

   There are currently three major bibliography formats out there (that I know of,
   anyhow) not counting library software systems.  One is Unix refer(1) format,
   documented in addbib(1), and the other two are Scribe and BibTeX.  BibTeX
   format is pretty much a subset of Scribe's with one or two minor exceptions.
   Both refer and Scribe/BibTeX format have their own advantages and
   disadvantages.

There's also "tib" format, which is a slight mutation of refer(1)
format but usable with TeX.  And the 10th edition unix manuals have a
further bibliography format (don't recall the name) that uses
refer-ish style except the tags are multicharacter (%title instead of
%t).

Here's a cite (from sgml.math.lsa.umich.edu:/pub/sgml/bibliography) on
tools that go from the SGML format to BibTeX; I haven't seen this thing
yet.

Cover, Robin; Duncan, Nicholas; Barnard, David.  "A Bibliography
    on Structured Text."  Technical Report, 1990.  This is the
    preliminary print version of a bibliographic and information
    database (compiled by Robin Cover), structured in SGML-database
    and formatted with SGML ->> BibTeX utilities developed at Queen's
    University by Nick Duncan and David Barnard.  Contact: Department
    of Computing and Information Science; Queen's University;
    Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; Tel: (613) 545-6056.


I think there's also an ANSI bibliographic standard, though I don't know
how it addresses storage representation vis-a-vis appearance on the page.

--Ed

Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu>
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