Hi,
I have a long bibliography file for a latex document and I must put
the references in order. Unfortunately the different authors have used
different styles, so that I have two blocks.
In the first block all references look like
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\bibitem[ {Aarseth}, 1999]{Aarseth99}{Aarseth}, S.~J. (1999).\newblock
{From NBODY1 to NBODY6: The Growth of an Industry}.\newblock {\em
PASP}, 111:1333--1346.
\bibitem[ {Aarseth}, 2003]{Aarseth03}{Aarseth}, S.~J. (2003).\newblock
{Black hole binary dynamics}.\newblock {\em Ap\&SS}, 285:367--372.
\bibitem[ {Alexander} and {Hopman}, 2003]{AH03}{Alexander}, T. and
{Hopman}, C. (2003).\newblock {Orbital inspiral into a massive black
hole in a galactic center}.\newblock {\em ApJ Lett.}, 590:L29--L32.
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(note that each entry is a single row)
And in the second block I have
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\bibitem{stroeer06emri} Stroeer A, Gair J R and Vecchio A, 2006,
Proceedings of 6th LISA Symposium submitted, preprint gr-qc/0605227
\bibitem{farmer} Farmer A J and Phinney E S, 2003,
Mon.~Not.~Roy.~Astron.~Soc.~{\bf 346} 1197
\bibitem{sesana05} Sesana A, Haardt F, Madau P and Volonteri M 2005
{\it Astrophys. J.} {\bf 623} 23
\bibitem{emriconf} Barack L and Cutler C 2004 \PR D {\bf 70} 122002
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(idem, single rows)
This means that (for these four entries) the final result should be
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\bibitem[ {Aarseth}, 1999]{Aarseth99}{Aarseth}, S.~J. (1999).\newblock
{From NBODY1 to NBODY6: The Growth of an Industry}.\newblock {\em
PASP}, 111:1333--1346.
\bibitem[ {Aarseth}, 2003]{Aarseth03}{Aarseth}, S.~J. (2003).\newblock
{Black hole binary dynamics}.\newblock {\em Ap\&SS}, 285:367--372.
\bibitem[ {Alexander} and {Hopman}, 2003]{AH03}{Alexander}, T. and
{Hopman}, C. (2003).\newblock {Orbital inspiral into a massive black
hole in a galactic center}.\newblock {\em ApJ Lett.}, 590:L29--L32.
\bibitem{emriconf} Barack L and Cutler C 2004 \PR D {\bf 70} 122002
\bibitem{farmer} Farmer A J and Phinney E S, 2003,
Mon.~Not.~Roy.~Astron.~Soc.~{\bf 346} 1197
\bibitem{sesana05} Sesana A, Haardt F, Madau P and Volonteri M 2005
{\it Astrophys. J.} {\bf 623} 23
\bibitem{stroeer06emri} Stroeer A, Gair J R and Vecchio A, 2006,
Proceedings of 6th LISA Symposium submitted, preprint gr-qc/0605227
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My first feeling was to try something like visual + ! sort -k but this
doesn't work...
any idea?
I have more than 200 references and I don't feel like doing this per hand!
Thanks
Pau
