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<div>There was the<font color="#000000"> Bibliography</font>.app out,
but the author H. Giesen rejected it. He´s working on a new version
called Bib_X. I hope it will be ready soon.</div>
<div>This is the readMe of a very-pre-alpha-version he sent me a few
weeks ago:</div>
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<blockquote><font color="#000000">This program Bib_X
(X=e<b>X</b>perimental for MacOS<b> X</b>) is nearly
useless.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000">But it is a first try
to:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000">- read a bib -
file</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000">- scan the file and detect syntax
errors without crashing</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000">- show all bibtex - entries (in
different ways):</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>* view1: shows the colored input and the original
input</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>* view2: shows the "classical"
NSForm</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>* view3: the formular cells (NSForm) are of different
(appropiate) heights</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab
>
or they are shown as boxes.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000">- it shall show some ideas of the
user interface</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000">- you cannot make any changes to the
input file (in this state it is too dangerous)</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000">for comments you are welcome
:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>giesenH@acm.org</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000">best regards</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>Heinrich Giesen</font></blockquote>
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<div>--Jan--</div>
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