X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil] [nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 90 22:10:11 CET Reply-To: LaTeX-L Mailing list From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Subject: Another way to do bibliographic entries To: Rainer Schoepf Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 186 [To be stashed away until work on this area is in progress.] In @Book{Tufte:envisioning, author = "Edward R. Tufte", title = "Envisioning Information", publisher = "Graphics Press", year = "1990", address = "Box 430, Cheshire, CT 06410, USA", } which I mentioned earlier today, bibliographic references are cited by superscript numeric tags in the text, but are displayed in marginal notes on the same page. [In view of the eminence of Tufte, and the publication of his books as masterpieces of typographic design, I don't think criticism of the approach is in order.] The current LaTeX \marginpar mechanism can get the marginal paragraphs created, but the numeric tags would have to be hacked by hand. However, there is the larger problem of the formatting of the bibliography entry, currently done by BibTeX into a separate .bbl file intended for inclusion en masse into the end of the document, and this problem remains if the alternate method of putting references in footnotes is done. Has anyone thought about how this style might be handled in a new LaTeX? At present, each .bbl file entry is not recorded in macro where it could be easily retrieved by TeX for use in a marginal note or footnote, although with the help of tools like awk, this could be arranged.