avox wrote: > > > John Beardmore wrote: >> avox wrote: >> >>>> draw bibliographic references from a bibliographic database, with >>>> automatic formatting and ordering of those entries depending on a bib >>>> style selection and etc. >>>> >>> That's only needed for scientific books. >> Academic ones anyway. Back in the days of CP/M I wrote a filter to take >> ASCII text with embedded escaped foreign characters and in line >> footnotes to produce output formatted to UK Modern Humanities Research >> Association standards. No database required, but quite a bit of tiresome >> formatting ! >> > > OIC, that was on the IBM 1100? ;-)
No - this started life on a DEC VT180 under CP/M, and ended up on an AST 10MHz 80286 under DOS 3.x Printout was to a Toshiba 24 pin dot matrix which with a new ribbon gave pretty good quality output and could handle some user defined characters. Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
