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Date:         Sat, 27 Jan 1996 17:47:00 GMT
From: Frank Bennett <fbennett@RUMPLE.SOAS.AC.UK>
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Subject:      File reads
Status: R

I have a question that relates to Camel, the prototype
citation engine that's come out of the Bibliography Team's
work in the past couple of years.

I would like to see a cleaner division of work between
BibTeX and TeX than the package currently has.  The
ideal would be to generate a *.bbl file of citation
images, one per line, which have a 1-1 correspondence
with the \cite commands in the document, in sequence
(and, of course, with the \cite commands that would be
generated by a \bibliography or similar command).

But this requires progressive reading of an input
file, one line at a time, on demand.  Can TeX be
made to do this efficiently?

Cheers,
--
Frank G Bennett, Jr          @@
Law Department, SOAS, London () email: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk
Tel: (0171)323-6351          () WWW: http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~fbennett/