Talk:BibTeX
Is Bibtex a tool? or a standard?: Reply
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::The third component is the bibtex "binary" itself. Here again, I think the specs are quite clear (what it should produce, for given format (BST) and data (BIB)) and I don't think that big incompatibilities do exists. (Needless to say that here again the concrete implementation (binary, perl, web2c, ...) should not matter if the specs are respected.) |
::The third component is the bibtex "binary" itself. Here again, I think the specs are quite clear (what it should produce, for given format (BST) and data (BIB)) and I don't think that big incompatibilities do exists. (Needless to say that here again the concrete implementation (binary, perl, web2c, ...) should not matter if the specs are respected.) |
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::But indeed maybe the most important component is the BIB file format, which goes beyond the (La)TeX universe and serves as a de facto standard for bibliographic data exchange between the most various systems. — [[User:MFH|MFH]]:[[User talk:MFH|Talk]] 13:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC) |
::But indeed maybe the most important component is the BIB file format, which goes beyond the (La)TeX universe and serves as a de facto standard for bibliographic data exchange between the most various systems. — [[User:MFH|MFH]]:[[User talk:MFH|Talk]] 13:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC) |
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:::𝐉𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐧 𝗵𝘂𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗶 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 (𝗖𝗦) 𝗞𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶0𝗻𝗲 ☎️𝟬𝟴𝟮𝟮-𝟵𝟳𝟵𝟱-𝟬𝟰𝟭𝟱☎️ ☎𝟬𝟴𝟱𝟯𝟵𝟯𝟭𝟵𝟯𝟮𝟵𝟭,☎ 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘂 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗻, 𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗜𝗡 𝗯𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗵 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘀𝗶 𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗣 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗮𝗿; 𝗖𝗦 𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘂 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘀𝗶 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗶 (𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗮, 𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗿) 𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝗯𝗮𝗵 𝗣𝗜𝗡 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 ... [[Special:Contributions/~2026-23788-13|~2026-23788-13]] ([[User talk:~2026-23788-13|talk]]) 10:37, 21 April 2026 (UTC) |
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:18 years after this post I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BibTeX&oldid=1201864689 decided to change the wording of the introduction], inspired by a discussion I had with some colleagues about the classification of BibTeX. Here's my reasoning with sources: |
:18 years after this post I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BibTeX&oldid=1201864689 decided to change the wording of the introduction], inspired by a discussion I had with some colleagues about the classification of BibTeX. Here's my reasoning with sources: |
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:If we look at a (nearly) primary source (https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex?lang=en), this is the description of the creator of BibTeX Oren Patashnik: |
:If we look at a (nearly) primary source (https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex?lang=en), this is the description of the creator of BibTeX Oren Patashnik: |
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