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Martin Schröder <martin@ONEIROS.DE> writes:

> 2018-05-05 0:36 GMT+02:00 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>:
>> Hello LaTeX folk. Oren (Patashnik) has expressed a desire to do
>> "whatever seems useful" (given that compatibility is paramount) with a
>> future BibTeX release -- not that anything is going to happen quickly,
>> but he wanted to start gathering information at this point.
>
> Sorry,
> but Oren's history of "expressing a desire to do" and then actually
> doing something
> doesn't inspire any trust that anything will really happen.
>
> For example we are still waiting for BibTeX 1.0 that was (last?)
> announced at TUG2007.

A window of opportunity for MLBibTeX.

Frankly, given the breathtaking pace of bibliography generators in the
TeX world, the main surprise is that the BibTeX database format is
supported as well as it is by a whole lot of software able to export
records.

-- 
David Kastrup