Re: [9fans] need feedback: bibTeX users?

[Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>]

Does your TeX package include some
LaTeX implementation for Plan 9 as
well?


Best,
ak

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM,  <tlaronde@polynum.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:34:38PM +0000, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>> tlaronde@polynum.com writes:
>>
>> > 3) Is there now a non WEB based implementation?---in this case I could
>> > simply forget about it.---
>>
>> There is for a certain subset, but it's probably not what you are
>> looking for:
>> http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/
>
> Yep, it relies "on the venerable bibTeX for sorting and generating...".
>
> For the ones interested, the problems are (with BibTeX and for a cursory
> look of the 185 pages! source built from chunks taken here and there):
>
> 1) It was designed for 7 bits---I will extend to 8 bits clean;
>
> 2) It apparently uses/computes size of the resulting entries using hard
> coded size of cmr10 letters (for ASCII range). That's perhaps the reason
> why the results, for latin1 or latin2, are not optimal (if I understand
> what others have said about problems), and why some of the process is
> done outside.
>
> Nonetheless, due to popular demand, it seems I will have to include
> it... And write a man page. Happy Christmas, Thierry!
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