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From: llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: help - *.bst files
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.192138.1277@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 91 19:21:38 GMT
Sender: llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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i need to modify existing style files for bibliographic
database. below is the text of a note i sent to my local
guru. unfortunately, he hasn't used the database. can
anybody help me? thanks. just need dome general ideas or
explanations.

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hi john,

hope you can help me with style files for  biblio.

i'm using bibtex. actually i'm accessing it via a software
called 'btt' which i pulled out from c.t.t.
however, i need to modify the style file (*.bst) being used.
i looked at /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/alpha.bst and had no
idea what was going on. can you tell me what language on
earth is it written in? a friend of mine said that it wasn't
C. nor does it seem to be tex, at least i couldn't locate a
description from the texbook. e.g. there are commands like
FUNCTION and EXECUTE. also there are MACROS but they don't
seem to be read or something from my *.bib file.
i need to change some of the text formatting and styles. do
you have some ideas how this might be done?

thanks,
lok