From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101213161054.GA975@polynum.com> References: <20101213103917.GA1597@polynum.com> <878vztpu68.fsf@gmail.com> <20101213161054.GA975@polynum.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:50:28 -0800 Message-ID: From: Akshat Kumar To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] need feedback: bibTeX users? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ca6192a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Does your TeX package include some LaTeX implementation for Plan 9 as well? Best, ak On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM, 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! > -- > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Thierry Laronde > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.kergis.com/ > Key fingerprint =3D 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 =A0250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C > >