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    I'm planning to use Texinfo to document a (mathematical) C library.
    I plan to use @iftex to insert formulas and the like.  (Is that
    correct?).
Texinfo has had an @math command for a while.  (@math{x+y} etc.)

    Does Bibtex work with Texinfo?
No.

    If not, what does one do?
I don't know of any good solution.

Bob (Chassell) and I have been mulling over the possibilities of putting
BibTeX support into Texinfo.  It might make into Texinfo 3.  I don't
know when that will appear.

In the meantime, if you want to do it yourself, then get btxmac.tex, the
macros I wrote a couple years ago for BibTeX support with plain TeX:
ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/eplain/btxmac.tex (it's part of Eplain),
labrea.stanford.edu:pub/bibtex/btxmac.tex (I think),
etc.

I don't think it would be much work to adapt them to Texinfo.
(But you'll have to enclose all the @bibliography etc. commands within
@iftex, or makeinfo/texinfo-format-buffer will obviously lose.)
If you get this working, I'm interested in the changes, to either btxmac
or texinfo or both.

karl@cs.umb.edu
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