Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does that mean that somebody is actually developing something useful >> with that? A new database frontend? Or even a bibtex replacement in >> Perl? > > Well, that what I'm going to us eit for. It seems rather less work to > write a perl script to generate the correct bbl files than hand-editing > archaic bibTeX style files...
That sounds interesting: bibtex is old, rotten software, bibtex8 exists, but 8bit is getting outdated, too, and there are more requirements. Recently, some development seems to be going on http://lifc.univ-fcomte.fr/~hufflen/texts/mlbibtex/mlbibtex/, but *slowly* - News is from 2004 and says "a more robust program, written using C, almost finished. I plan to write the installation manual very soon, too" - that's also the state it was in one month ago when I heard a talk by the author. In other words: There's a big need for a program to take over bibtex's part, that can work in mulitlingual contexts and is actively developed. Do you plan to start a project, or is it rather a one-time solution for your particular needs? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)