[7] in Framemaker_Discussion
References in Frame
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorothy Bowe)
Thu May 13 10:37:12 1993
To: cdemello@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: frame@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 13 May 93 10:32:32 EDT
From: Dorothy Bowe <dot@Athena.MIT.EDU>
> o There is nothing that will automatically do bibliography
> formatting, or sorting. Creating a bibliography
> paragraph type is easy enough, but the sorting
> and then citing of references is something
> that has to be done by hand. The same is true
> of references in general, it is certainly not
> as easy as labeling something in LaTeX...
>
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you were looking for, but while
reading the FAQ I found reference to a contributed program called fmbib.
This is what the FAQ says about it:
>A. fmbib
>
>"fmbib" takes a Frame document (.mif format) as its input, with
>"Bibliography" markers embedded where the references occur. The marker
>text is that of a key word indexed into a bibliography database file,
>such as Scribe's ".bib" files. In fact, the program is compatible
>with Scribe bibliography files. The user can also specify on the
>command line one of several reference and bibliography styles. fmbib
>will then generate a new FM .mif file which is the actual
>bibliography. The original document is modified to contain
>cross-references to this new document. These references appear as
>visible text when the user updates cross-references in the original
>document. The program also aids in creating new bibliography database
>
I've installed fmbib for the DECstation, making it available after the
next AFS propagation. There are man pages, fmbib and fmbibverify, as
well as an example program in picture/contrib/misc/fmbib/example.bib.
Feel free to poke around and see if this is the sort of thing you were
looking for.
Dot
