/u/ftp/pub/bibnet/authors/index, Thu May 9 17:26:20 1996 Edit by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@plot79.math.utah.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory of BibNet Project personal publication bibliographies contains subdirectories keyed from the initial letter of authors' last names. Subdirectories contain files identified by last-first-initial(s), with file extensions that indicate the contents: .bib BibTeX bibliography file .dvi TeX DVI file for the typeset bibliography .html HyperText Markup Language file, usually a translation of a BibTeX file to provide hypertext links .ltx LaTeX wrapper file for printing the bibliography .pdf Adobe Acrobat Portable Document File created from the PostScript file .ps.gz GNU gzip compressed PostScript file created from the .dvi file .sed UNIX sed script for converting old citation labels; this has been superceded by .sub files, because of capacity and speed limitations of sed. .sok spelling exception dictionary for .bib file .sub citation label substitution file for citesub (use for converting old (La)TeX files to new labels in the BibNet Project standard style, name:year:abbrev) .twx title-word cross-reference file input by the .ltx file The ordering of entries in the bibliographies is generally by year, and within each year, alphabetical by citation label. This gives a reasonable approximation to publication order, which is a suitable order for a personal publication bibliography. The ordering of the typeset bibliography is dictated by the style selected in the \bibliographystyle{} command in the .ltx file; in most cases, this is is-alpha, which produces a bibliography sorted by first author, then by year. If you want a typeset version in the same order as the entries in the bibliography file, just change the style to is-unsrt instead, and then retypeset like this: latex young-david-m.ltx bibtex young-david-m latex young-david-m.ltx bibtex young-david-m latex young-david-m.ltx To typeset the LaTeX files, you will need some additional LaTeX *.sty and BibTeX *.bst style files that are available in the ftp.math.utah.edu:/pub/bibnet/tools/examples directory. The is-xxx bibliography styles are extensions of the standard ones which support additional ISBN (International Standard Book Number), LCCN (Library of Congress Catalog Number), URL (Uniform Resource Locator), price, and pages fields. ISBNs have been in worldwide use by publishers since 1972; they contain four hyphen- (or blank-) separated fields which serve to identify the language group, the publisher and the book itself; the fourth field is a check digit in [0-9X] used to validate the ISBN. Bookstores and library catalogs can use ISBNs to locate a book more precisely than one can with just the usual author, title, and publisher information. URLs are a recent addition to the Internet: they are used by World Wide Web browsers in HTML (HyperText Markup language) files to locate resources. They look like resourcetype://Internet-hostname/pathname. Every bibliography entry contains a URL in its bibsource value pointing to the master bibliography from which the entry was extracted, so that any subsequent copying of entries into other bibliographies should maintain the origin, where the latest version may be expected to be found. A growing number of bibliography entries contain URL fields that point to electronic versions of the material, and some of the file headers in the .ltx and .bib files contain a URL to the author's home page on the Internet, where that information is available. The .dvi files can be viewed or printed using any DVI file previewer or translator; they require only the standard Computer Modern fonts present in every TeX distribution. The .ps files can be viewed with a PostScript viewer, or printed on any PostScript printer. They are somewhat large, so we have stored them in compressed form using GNU gzip (available on prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/gzip*.*, and easily buildable on any UNIX system; ports to DEC VMS and IBM PC environments are also available). gzip is produces better compression than UNIX compress, and free of the Unisys patent claim on the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm in compress. To uncompress such a file, once gzip is installed, just do something like this gunzip young-david-m.ps.gz If you fetched the file via gopher or a WWW browser, instead of via FTP, the decompression should have been done automatically for you; if not, complain to your local gophermaster or webmaster. The reason that the PostScript files are large is that they contain Type 1 outline fonts, rather than bitmap fonts, thanks to the excellent work of Basil K. Malyshev. These fonts are available in the CTAN archives (do "finger ctan@pip.shsu.edu" for a list of sites). The advantage of Type 1 outline fonts over Type 3 bitmap fonts is resolution independence; especially in PostScript screen previewers, the font quality is noticeably improved by use of Type 1 fonts. If you want to view the PostScript files, we recommend use of an Adobe Acrobat reader (freely available on ftp.adobe.com for several personal computer and workstation architectures) on the .pdf file. This provides zoom, pan, string searching, printing of selected pages, and very rapid display, independent of the size of the .pdf file. ----------------------------------------------------------------------