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

2010-12-16 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:50:28PM -0800, Akshat Kumar wrote: Does your TeX package include some LaTeX implementation for Plan 9 as well? LaTeX is not a program, but a set of macros compiled by TeX (to be correct: by an instance of TeX called: virtex(1)) to speed things up. All in all

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

2010-12-16 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:06:03PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: LaTeX is not a program, but a set of macros compiled by TeX (to be correct: by an instance of TeX called: virtex(1)) No: to be correct by initex(1) for the dump, and then an instance of virtex(1) called latex to load the

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

2010-12-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
Does your TeX package include some LaTeX implementation for Plan 9 as well? Best, ak On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:34:38PM +, Christian Neukirchen wrote: tlaro...@polynum.com writes: 3) Is there now a non WEB based

[9fans] need feedback: bibTeX users?

2010-12-13 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Since I'm finishing the task I have undertaken---provide a complete core TeX system with MetaPost---, there is one piece that is a WEB program, hence needs to be translated, and that may be used: bibTeX. I don't use it myself but since third millenium state of the art academic research is

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

2010-12-13 Thread James Chapman
Dear Thierry, I use it: james$ bibtex --version BibTeX 0.99d (TeX Live 2010/MacPorts 2010_0) kpathsea version 6.0.0 Copyright 2010 Oren Patashnik. ... In my area (roughly theoretical computer science I guess) LaTeX is a necessity (I have to send the LaTeX source to the publisher) and bibTeX is

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

2010-12-13 Thread John Stalker
Hello, Since I'm finishing the task I have undertaken---provide a complete core TeX system with MetaPost---, there is one piece that is a WEB program, hence needs to be translated, and that may be used: bibTeX. ...skipping... So questions: 1) Are there people using it? Yes, I use it

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

2010-12-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:39 AM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: Hello, Since I'm finishing the task I have undertaken---provide a complete core TeX system with MetaPost---, there is one piece that is a WEB program, hence needs to be translated, and that may be used: bibTeX. We use it all the

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

2010-12-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Gorka Guardiola pau...@gmail.com wrote: We use it all the time. We stopped using it for a paper and it was a mess because the ordering and other things needed to be carefully checked each time the format changed. 0.99c -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

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

2010-12-13 Thread Christian Neukirchen
tlaro...@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/ -- Christian Neukirchen chneukirc...@gmail.com

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

2010-12-13 Thread ron minnich
can't write papers without bibtex. reviewers get angry if you don't cite their papers in your submission,and will happily bounce your paper for that reason alone. ron