Re: [Texmacs-dev] Bibtex replacement - and Elsevier

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Dear Norbert,

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 08:28:47AM +0100, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> I have just found the native BibTeX replacement that Joris has recently 
> checked in.

This extension was written by David Michel.

> Is this code compatible to the upcoming biblatex standard?

No, I did not know about this "standard".

> I  have not used biblatex, but it seems to be a very solid and clean  
> design. I believe it will quickly replace the venerable bibtex, so  
> whatever TeXmacs does a the moment should be prepared for it right away.

If we have to extend our format, then I am more interested to be
compatible with XML-based formats used by editors. We just met
some people from Elsevier, who were actually quite interested by TeXmacs.
It turns out that LaTeX is as much a pain for them as for us.
They really seem to use XML for their typesetting process;
LaTeX papers are completely reworked so as to be put in XML.
I will soon get a confirmation, but I think that they use
the following DTD:

    http://www.elsevier.com/framework_authors/DTDs/ja5_tagbytag5-v1.3.pdf

I will meet them again at Amsterdam in september. It would be
nice if we could work out an export for this DTD in the meantime.

Best wishes, --Joris