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From: glr@otc.otca.oz (Gordon Rowell)
Newsgroups: aus.tex,comp.text
Subject: Does anyone have refer-like tools for BIBTeX?
Keywords: BIBTeX, refer
Message-ID: <675@otc.otca.oz>
Date: 6 Apr 89 01:08:40 GMT
Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia
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I have written a simple minded BIBTeX entry program, and would like to find
out if anyone has written such tools before I go on to expand it. What I
feel is required is a program that prompts for the fields for BIBTeX
entries, and generates a resonably formatted .bib file from them. This
includes quoting things properly (e.g. each Author surrounded by "{....}"
to stop BIBTeX falling over on foriegn names (M\"{u}ller, for example)).

Allied with this are tools which generate permuted indexes from .bib files,
and all the other things people tell me that refer can do.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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