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From: jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: help - *.bst files
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Date: 25 Apr 91 02:04:30 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.192138.1277@wpi.WPI.EDU> <1991Apr24.153925.25696@cs.columbia.edu>
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In article <1991Apr24.153925.25696@cs.columbia.edu>, leland@cs.columbia.edu (Lee Woodbury) writes:
|> In article <1991Apr23.192138.1277@wpi.WPI.EDU> llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon) writes:
|> >      ...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?

May I suggest checking labrea.stanford.edu:~/tex/bibtex/btxhak.tex.
I successfully wrote a BibTeX style file (asaetr.bst) using this 
information and the standard examples.

It's really not that bad once you get into it, but I admit it
does look pretty cryptic ;-)

-- 
James Darrell McCauley, Grad Res Asst, Spatial Analysis Lab 
Dept of Ag Engr, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX 77843-2117, USA
(jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu, jdm5548@tamagen.bitnet)