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Date:         Fri, 20 Apr 90 21:46:46 CET
Reply-To: LaTeX-L Mailing list <LATEX-L%DHDURZ1@unido.bitnet>
From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <Beebe@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU>
To: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.uucp>
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Re: support for multiple bibliographies in LaTeX

Yes, this is indeed needed.  Books that are collections of
independent papers need multiple bibliographies, as do
journals, although these could be typeset in parts, since
there are usually no references between the parts.  ,
Some technical books use bibliographies for each chapter.

I recently converted my curriculum vita from an old document
processor format to LaTeX, and needed the ability to have
cross-references to reference to entries in separate
bibliographies (one for published papers, one for institute
reports).  I could solve the problem in this case by using
hard-coded explicit references [Reports 13, 17--19], and
separate runs of short .ltx files that used \nocite{*},
followed by a BibTeX run, and inclusion of the .bbl file
contents in the master .ltx file, because the order of the
bibliographic entries is according to publication time, and
there is only one author, so the numeric tags will not
change in the future.  However, in more general types of
documents, this would not be the case, and there is
definitely a need to be able to have citations into multiple
bibliographies.