DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Bibliography management/BibTex equivalent

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Mark Wroth <mark@astrid.upland.ca.us> was heard to say:
| BibTeX allows any fields  in any entry.  Each bibliography style then
| parses the fields into "required", "optional", and "ignored", and
| provides typesetting rules for the required and optional fields.  Any
| field that is neither required nor optional is treated as ignored.

Do the rules ever reorder fields? I could tweak the stylesheets to
select only some entries from each biblioentry and process them.

How does BibTeX deal with punctuation around optional entries?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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