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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Citation in footnotes (the old-fashioned way)
Message-ID: <1991May02.122533.15634@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 2 May 91 12:25:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.213329.658@wa8tzg.mi.org>
Sender: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-Reply-To: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan)

>>>>> wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan) (BM) writes:

BM> Sigh.  My daughter's English teacher wants citations done the
BM> old-fashioned way (aka MLA style).  You know, a genuine footnote with
BM> the full citation the first time a work is cited, then the usual 'op
BM> cit' and 'ibid' in italics later on in the same chapter.  Et cetera ad
BM> nauseum.

The bibliography processor Tib can do this. It uses a preprocessor and it
needs a refer bibliography. It could be done with BibTeX (I suppose) but it
would take a lot of work.
-- 
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