Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!wjh12!dow From: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: BIBTeX Message-ID: <212@wjh12.harvard.edu> Date: 11 May 88 19:39:21 GMT References: <2268@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: dow@wjh12.UUCP (Dominik Wujastyk) Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA Lines: 48 In article <2268@ut-emx.UUCP> chpf127@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Eaton) writes: > > Does anyone out there know of or have an interactive program which will > help me create .bib files for BIBTeX? Ideally, this program would prompt > me for the type of entry (i.e. Journal, Book, etc.) and then let me > enter the information for the different fields. It would also remind > me which fields were required, optional or ignored for each type > of entry. Extra bonus features would be checking to see that the > key I've chosen is unique, and whether the entry already exists. > Pro-Cite by Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc., does everything you want, and a great deal more. It can even hunt through an article, recognize references, and construct a bibliography for you, much as BibTeX does, but working only from the unflagged citations in the text. In fact, it does a lot of the jobs that Bibtex does, and in a smoother, more integrated manner (no offence to BTX). You have complete control of the format of the output, including conditionally inserted codes, so you can have ProCite output a bibliography all ready formatted for digestion by TeX. I have done this with great success. It really is excellent. For publicity blurb contact: Pers. Bibl. Software, Inc., 412 Longshore Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105. Phone: (313) 996 1580. ProCite gets a useful write-up in John J. Hughes's excellent survey of text applications, _Bits Bytes & Biblical Studies_ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987). Hughes praises ProCite as "the most complex, powerful, and flexible of the bibliographical programs. It is best suited for professionals and others with 'serious' bibliographical needs." The only problem is that ProCite is expensive. $395. And they keep upgrading and charging $50 each time. Scandalous. But the product as it is now, at version 1.4, is heavily feature-laden, and has arrived at some sort of plateau, I feel. You might also look at the new Buttonware product, PC-File plus, version 2.0. The fields are now big enough to take a reasonable amount of text data, and I think it can recognize duplicates. Shareware. $69. Dominik -- bitnet: user DOW on the bitnet node HARVUNXW arpanet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu uucp: ...!ihnp4!wjh12!dow