Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: proceedings in LaTeX Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 21:03:13 GMT Article-I.D.: manutius.SPQR.91May24220313 References: <5204@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 26 In-reply-to: richardd@syma.sussex.ac.uk's message of 24 May 91 16:32:59 GMT In article <5204@syma.sussex.ac.uk> richardd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Dallaway) writes: I'm using LaTeX to construct a technical report containing about 40 papers (something like a conference proceedings, but not quite). So I have 40 article style LaTeX files, using a variety of bibliographical (BIBTeX) styles, etc. What's a good way for me to pull these together? Treat it like a book, and have each article as a chapter? I'm mostly worried about the different bibliography styles (I don't want to impose a standard style on everyone). To answer the latter question, why not? Isnt that one of the great advantage of BibTeX? When I do this sort of job, I treat each chapter separately, and create a .bbl file for each one. My overall file hauls in all of these one after another, with the .bbl file, and sorts out the overall crossreferences. To ensure this works, I have a single .bib file for the whole book, as a) otherwise the symbolic references may get confused, and b) the authors probably cite the same things :-} I manage the work with a Makefile and a small harness which drags in a given chapter and runs it through its paces. Sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)