[OS X TeX] Bibliography: pedestrian way works too...

[Claus Gerhardt]

When using bibtex my  source file contains the lines

\bibliographystyle{amsplain}
\bibliography{mrabbrev,publications}

To distribute a single tex file, it will be sufficient to comment the 
second line and paste the complete .bbl file

\bibliographystyle{amsplain}
%\bibliography{mrabbrev,publications}

.bbl

Claus

On Jan 13, 2005, at 10:27, Mohinish wrote:

> Hi,
> I was thinking of being able to distribute the .tex file itself, so it 
> would be easiest to use the 'pedestrian' way, but with only the 
> relevant bibtex entries inserted automatically..
> from what I see, the .bbl files are not(?) bibtex? Im sorry, I dont 
> know.. Is it the case that if I insert the .bbl file entries into my 
> .tex it would work as if I had inserted the bibtex entries themselves?
> (nb: i use apacite for the American Psych. Assn  style of formatting)
> thanks
> Mohinish
>
>
>
> On 13 Jan 2005, at 10:17 AM, Holger Frauenrath wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2005, at 10:04, Mohinish wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I was wondering about this: I have a rather large bibliography 
>>> (bibtex) file, and generally all the articles I write pick out 
>>> citations out of it. What I was thinking was, in order to distribute 
>>> just the tex file, it would be great to be able to imbed the 
>>> necessary bibtex entries into the file. I thought of writing an 
>>> Applescript which would search through all the \cite commands, 
>>> extract the relevant entries from a bibtex file (directory of 
>>> files?) and insert these at the end of the tex doc.
>>> 	Of course, being cr at p at Applescript, I got nowhere :(
>>> Does someone have something similar?
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> -Mohinish
>>
>> I may be completely wrong, but isn't it like during the BibTeX run of 
>> your file foo.tex, a file foo.bbl is created that contains just the 
>> cited references? Or is this not what you want? The references in the 
>> .bbl are formatted. Do you mean to embed the complete reference 
>> information?
>>
>> Holger
>>
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