<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Hi</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I'm delighted that this week Nelson Beebe will be describing BibTeX, and problems he'd like to have solved by the end of 2025.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">TeX Hour: Thursday 21 September, 6:30 to 7:30pm BST</div><div class="gmail_quote">TeX Hour URL: <a href="https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/21/2025-problems-bibtex/">https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/21/2025-problems-bibtex/</a></div><div class="gmail_quote">

Zoom URL: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">BibTeX is part of LaTeX. It's described even in Lamport's 1994 LaTeX book. Nelson has contributed a rigorous grammar for BibTeX and friends, and pioneered the storage and retrieval of BibTeX records in SQL databases. Crucial here is that BibTeX is flexible. Each record can include fields relevant only for search and retrieval, which won't appear in a citation.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb14-4/tb41beebe.pdf">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb14-4/tb41beebe.pdf</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-2/tb95beebe.pdf">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-2/tb95beebe.pdf</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Nelson finds the combination of BibTeX and SQL enormously valuable for documenting publications in books and journals, and on specific subjects, and by and about specific authors. He also contributes to large shared libraries of BibTeX records.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">If you have another topic you'd like to discuss sometime this year, please do send me a message.</div><div class="gmail_quote">
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The video from last week is available at:<br>
URL: <a href="https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/14/2025-problems-value-added-typesetting/">https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/14/2025-problems-value-added-typesetting/</a><br>
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with best regards<br>
<br>
Jonathan<br>
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