Document: BTXDOC ["BibTeXing" by Oren Patashnik]

1 Overview

[This document will be expanded when version 1.00 comes out. Please report typos, omissions, inaccuracies, and especially unclear explanations to me (patashnik@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU). Suggestions for improvements are wanted and welcome.]

This documentation, for version 0.99b, is meant for general users; bibliography-style designers should read this document and then read ``Designing Styles'' (Patashnik 1988), which is meant for just them.

This document has three parts: Section 2 describes the differences between versions 0.98i and 0.99b of and between the corresponding versions of the standard styles; Section 3 updates Appendix B.2 of the book (Lamport 1986); and Section 4 gives some general and specific tips that aren't documented elsewhere. It's assumed throughout that you're familiar with the relevant sections of the book.

This documentation also serves as sample input to help implementors get it running. For most documents, this one included, you produce the reference list by: running on the document (to produce the aux file(s)), then running (to produce the bbl file), then twice more (first to find the information in the bbl file and then to get the forward references correct). In very rare circumstances you may need an extra / run.

version 0.99b should be used with version 2.09, for which the closed bibliography format is the default; to get the open format, use the optional document style openbib (in an open format there's a line break between major blocks of a reference-list entry; in a closed format the blocks run together).]

Note: 0.99b is not compatible with the old style files; nor is 0.98i compatible with the new ones (the new , however, is compatible with old database files).

Note for implementors: provides logical-area names TEXINPUTS: for bibliography-style files and TEXBIB: for database files it can't otherwise find.

Document: BTXDOC ["BibTeXing" by Oren Patashnik]