[OS X TeX] Practical TeX

[Josep Maria Font]

On 22 Oct 2013, at 09:43, Ralph Martin <Ralph.Martin at cs.cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 17 Oct 2013, at 17:31, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm a few days away from finishing the first draft of
>>
>> Practical LaTeX
>>
>> It's a short book (200+ pages) focusing on everyday documents with formulas.
>>
>> To keep Practical LaTeX short, I do not discuss books, makeindex, bibtex, and a lot more stuff.
>
> I think you are making a mistake leaving out bibtex. Pretty much EVERY document any of the students here does has to have a bibliography, which uses bibtex.

I agree. Perhaps it is not essential to explain how to build the database, how entries and fields are specified and formatted, etc. But it should not be very complicated to explain just how to use it, assuming the .bib database is around (in my dept., for instance, there is a very large shared data base stored in a server). Following LaTeX main principle of concentrating on the contents and letting the formatting work to the designers.


JMaF



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