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From: windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bibliography databases?
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Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 12:03:58 EST
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In article <2557@sphinx.uchicago.edu> mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Samuel Wilson) writes:
>
>I have not heard this request on the net for quite a while, and
>it's one which just about all of us using computers in academics
>can benefit.  Are there any good bibliography programs available?
>
>I have tried a program called BIBLIOGRAPHY which was too clumsy
>and slow, and didn't do the things mentioned above.  I have tried
>to write my way through it in DbaseII and Reflex, but ran into
>trouble trying to program things like hanging indents in the
>output.  

Why don't you just have dBASE output nroff commands and then run it
through a pd nroff?  It seems silly to write a text formatter in dBASE
(which is what you'd have to do otherwise.)  This is one of the things
that would save us all a lot of time, let each program do a job and
that job only.  Don't make a database do text formatting, don't maker
your text formatter do database management.  See "Software Tools in
Pascal" by Kernighan and Plauger for an execllent discussion.


Phil Windley
Robotics Research Lab
University of Califo: Tnes
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