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[Bas Spitters <address@hidden>]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 14:59, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> Mingfeng Yang wrote:
> > But what I want to know is the format of the reference. For example,
> > some journals need the reference in "author, journal, time, page"
> > format, and the citation in the text should be in superscript or in
> > parenthesis or bracket etc. I googled, and  found out that bibtex can
> > handle this according to a corresponding  bibliography style file. But
> > the grammar of this file looks very complicated. :(
>
> Unfortunately, I'm afraid that in this respect,
> using TeXmacs changes absolutely nothing at all
> to the bibTeX crappy style file syntax :-(...

These guys claim they can do better: you can use python and XML.
Use the script pybformat
http://arch.pybliographer.org/documentation/script-scripting-existing.html
and create your own styles:
http://arch.pybliographer.org/documentation/styles.html

I have not tested this. If this works I guess it should not be too difficult 
add it to texmacs, since texmacs just does latex import.(?)

Bas