Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom bibliography

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Did you know that BibTeX does not impose a restriction on the fields 
names that are used inside a bibentry? Everything is decided by the 
corresponding bibstyle (.bst) file (which is more like a program).

Unfortunately, I cannot give a reference, but there should be bibstyles 
around that can be used to produce annotated bibliographies from .bib 
files (no pamphlet). The annotation would be in the field "annotate".
And you can use any latex inside this field.

I am not sure whether I would like writing annotations that way (I 
usually have a field "abstract", though), but it is somehow is closer to 
the latex philosophy that the style decides about the look of the data.

I think the most important point is that the data is available in a 
format than can be processed automatically.

And yes, it is a pity that people have not thought about it from the 
beginning: any paper/book/... should have a uniqe string (the bibkey) 
that identifies the item **worldwide**. At the moment every person uses 
his/her own identifiers and it is not easy to merge two overlapping 
bibliography databases.

Ralf

On 04/19/2006 09:14 PM, root wrote:
> I'm a big fan of annotated bibliographies. We could create a bib volume
> that would generate the bibtex file as well as a document that contains
> the annotations. Annotations are a great way to collect wisdom about
> various papers from previous readers so you can decide if the reference
> is related to your effort.