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Re: Bibliographic Formats

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From: hank
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 18:30
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In article <1992Sep1.140514.6748@athena.mit.edu>, Matthias Imhof <gondwana@basalt.mit.edu>  writes:
> now the new question is, is there a way to go from refer to bibtex? is there
> a tex-utility which generates a *.bib file out of a refer/addbib bibliography?
 
I don't know anything about refer, but everyone should get
 1. DM Jones excellent tex-index
 2. The FAQ posted to this newsgroup by Bobby Bodenheimer
 3. The Supplemental tex info posted to this group by Guoying Chen


In #3, you will find, among other things:
[7] Converting whatever to TeX

Only the names of programs are presented here.  Refer to section [1b]
to see where to get them from.  This information is based on a summary
by James Mark (mark@nuri.inria.fr) posted on 28 Aug 90.

BibTeX      ->  refer  - refer-to-bibtex
BibTeX      ->   tib   - refer-to-bibtex
ChiWriter   ->   TeX   - Chi2TeX by Horstmann Software, US$75
LaTeX       -> Framemaker - la2mml
MS-Word     ->  LaTeX  - wd2latex.zip
PC-Write    ->   TeX   - pcwritex.arc, pcwtex.zoo
refer       ->  BibTeX - refer-to-bibtex, r2bib
RTF         ->  troff  - rtf-tools
RTF         ->   TeX   - rtf2TeX
RUNOFF      ->   TeX   - RUNOFF-to-TeX
scribe      ->  LaTeX  - scribe2latex, s2latex
TeXinfo     ->  troff  - texinfo2troff, texi2roff
tib         ->  BibTeX - refer-to-bibtex
troff       ->  LaTeX  - TROFF-TO-LATEX.TAR-Z, tr2latex
troff       ->   TeX   - tr2tex, textr
WordPerfect ->  LaTeX  - wp2latex.zip, wp2x
WordPerfect ->   TeX   - wp2x

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
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