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Bibliographies in FrameMaker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorothy Bowe)
Wed May 19 08:40:01 1993
To: frame@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: cdemello@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 May 93 08:39:50 EDT
From: Dorothy Bowe <dot@Athena.MIT.EDU>
BibFrame, an interface between FrameMaker and BibTeX, the LaTeX tool for
generating bibliographies, is now installed in the FrameMaker
("picture") locker. I still have a slight problem with the RS/6000
version, but the DECstation is ready to be used and/or tested.
There are two FrameMaker documents which describe how to use BibFrame.
They are both in picture/contrib/bibframe/doc:
BibFrame_UsersGuide.mif - The BibFrame User's Guide
BibFrame_RDF_Guide.mif - Managing BibTeX Reference Database
Files With FrameMaker
You can either print them out for yourself or ask me to copy the ones I
have. (If you read these documents: BIBFRAMEBIN has been defined
system-wide, and Maker.cmdEscape is already TRUE.)
If you already know BibTeX, here's the basics on using BibFrame:
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* Set the environment variable BIBFRAMEREF before running maker. This
should be a comma separated list of reference database files including
the fullpath but without the .bib extension. For example
setenv BIBFRAMEREF /mit/picture/contrib/bibframe/ref/bf_doc
* Access BibFrame's features through keyboard macros executed by typing
C-r, or <Escape> followed by keys defining the macro. These are the
basic macros:
C-r bm Convert highlighted text to a citation. You do not type
the []'s
C-r bk Quick version of C-r bm. This coverts the word the
cursor is in or adjacent to *if* the word contains only
letters or underscore characters
C-r bb Generate the bibliography. This can take a while, so
be patient :-)
C-r bi Insert the bibliography into the document at the current
cursor location.
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Notes: BibFrame currently does not work with books; you need to
generate bibliographies for each chapter and combine them
by hand.
For information on customizing BibFrame, see the User's Guide.
For Twm users: If anyone figures out how to make Frame autoplace
the gazillion windows it pops up, please let me know.
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Dorothy Bowe
Academic Computing Services
Faculty Liaison
email: dot@mit.edu
phone: (617)253-0170
fax: (617)258-8736
