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BibTeX - Sorting Bibliography Entries

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From: Dean Redelinghuys
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:38
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Greetings and salutations.

Does anyone know of a program for sorting the ORIGINAL BIBTEX BIBLIOGRAPHY
files into some sort of order (alphabetically by author, for example)?

Someone here would like to sort a 60+ BIBTEX bibliography so that he can
keep track of the citation references. He is using BibDB 1.0a, and can see
for example, all authors with surname Smith, but the citation keys do not
get sorted. So, is there a method of LOGICALLY sorting the BIBTEX
bibliography (.BIB file) into alphabetical order (on citation key/author/
year etc.)?

Thanks for the help. Since I originally posted to the emtex-user mailing 
list and got a lot of "Hey, let me know what you find out"s, I'll summarise
if someone e-mails me.

Dean Redelinghuys
|------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| Have another day.            |    redel@odie.ee.wits.ac.za.          |
|                              |                                       |
| ``There are no weird people  |  Postgraduate Student                 |
|   in this world - some just  |  Electrical Engineering Department    |
|   require more understanding |  University of the Witwatersrand      |
|   than others'' Tom Robbins  |  Johannesburg South Africa            |
|------------------------------|---------------------------------------|


-- 
Dean Redelinghuys
|------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| Have another day.            |    redel@odie.ee.wits.ac.za.          |
|                              |                                       |
| ``There are no weird people  |  Postgraduate Student                 |
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From: redel@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za (Dean Redelinghuys)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: BibTeX - Sorting Bibliography Entries
Summary: Any progs. to sort BIBTEX bibliographies alphabetically, etc.
Keywords: Bibtex,sort,bibliography
Message-ID: <redel.714314320@shannon>
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:38:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: shannon.redel.714314320
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
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