- From: Simon Spiegel <simon@simifilm.ch>
- Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 00:19:29 +0200
On 23.05.2009, at 23:35, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2009, Simon Spiegel wrote: >> >> > > I agree that BibTeX is suboptimal. But what should we use instead? > > (The biblatex vocabulary seems unnecessarily incompatible with > BibTeX's, > and the latter appears to have more deployed support, which was one > of the > primary concerns that led to its vocabulary being picked.) Biblatex is only incompatible insofar as it offers many more fields and possibilites than standard BibTeX. But that's true for about any newer BibTeX style and is a direct consequence from the extreme limitation of standard BibTeX. simon -- Simon Spiegel Steinhaldenstr. 50 8002 Z?rich Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 Mobophon: ++41 76 459 60 39 http://www.simifilm.ch ?When you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.? Abraham Maslow
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