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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hi
everybody,<BR><BR>here's my little problem of the day, if someone wants to tool
with it...<BR><BR>I'm trying to customize my bibliographystyle to the (horrific)
"current opinion" format.<BR>I'm using "naturemag.bst" as the template I'm
editing and "natbib.sty" for the citing.<BR><BR>Here is where I have
troubles:<BR><BR>COpin requires "rating" via small bullets for articles of
"outstanding" interest. So I just added the 'type output' statement in the
article formatting (where in type I write how "outstanding the article is" -
i.e. put bullets). (so far so good, except that it will put the bullets AFTER
the reference numbers, when really it should be before.. SOMEONE knows
how?)<BR><BR>Second, some articles need comments appended to the reference. So I
included the note field with the same 'note output' statement. Problem is, this
is not appended as a new paragraph, but just put as another sentence, after the
year of publication. Also, I'd like to make it \textbf{}, but can't seem to edit
the note field in the .bst file accordingly (I think I can solve this by
manually boldening the note field in the .bib file.<BR><BR>Just to make it clear
here are the three problems:<BR><BR>1) Move the "type output" so that in the
references whatever is in the "type" field will appear prior to the [nn]
numbering of the reference (..I do think it's visually horrible...)?<BR>2) How
can I get the "note output" to be on a new line, appended to the
reference?<BR>3) How can I get the "note output" to be \textbf{} without doing
it manually in the .bib file?<BR><BR>If anyone is a BIBTEX guru, please help...
;)<BR><BR> cheers<BR><BR>Roman<BR><BR>PS here is my article function from
the naturemag.bst (slightly modified -e.g. the type output):<BR><BR>FUNCTION
{article} { output.bibitem<BR> type output<BR> add.blank<BR>
format.authors "author" output.check<BR> new.block<BR> format.title
"title" output.check<BR> new.block<BR> crossref
missing$<BR> {<BR>
journal<BR> "journal"
bibinfo.check<BR>
emphasize<BR> "journal"
output.check<BR>
add.blank<BR> format.vol.num.pages
output<BR> format.date "year"
output.check<BR> }<BR> {
format.article.crossref output.nonnull<BR>
format.pages output<BR> }<BR> if$<BR>
new.block<BR> format.url output<BR> new.block<BR> format.note
output<BR> format.eprint output<BR> fin.entry<BR>}
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