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Date:         Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:30:00 GMT
From: Frank Bennett <fbennett@RUMPLE.SOAS.AC.UK>
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Subject:      Re: File reads
Status: R

Dear all,

Several have set me straight on the fact that TeX's \read
command works line-by-line, and is exactly what I need.
Several have tactfully expressed their bewilderment that
I should not have picked up on this already.

My apologies for putting an unnecessary question to the
group.

However, this does lead into another announcement concerning
the Camel citation manager.  After corresponding with Oren
Patashnik re his plans for BibTeX 1.0, and having confirmed
that line-by-line input is possible in TeX, I have decided
to radically restructure Camel once BibTeX 1.0 comes out.

Essentially, the Camel style code for LaTeX will be reduced
to that which is minimally necessary to describe the context of
a citation.  This information will be set in a string which
is passed through to BibTeX.  It will then be the responsiblity
of BibTeX to produce the LaTeX markup of the finished citations,
one line for each \citation command appearing in the *.aux
file.  LaTeX then reads these commands on the second run.

In addition to making the code for the Camel package much
easier for people to follow, this will allow the use of
the same Camel style file across all styles, and will
reduce the amount of memory consumed by bibliography
macros even below that of the current standard bibliography
styles.

Good news all around.  The drafting will take awhile,
though; expect Camel to be static for a couple of years
in the meantime.

cheers,
Frank B