[texhax] Bibtex questions

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> While you can learn to write the .bst, it is probably sufficient to
> use the makebst program.  I have a link from my page
> 
> http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/latex.html
> 
> to makebst:
> 
>    MakeBst is a program for automatically making bst files.
>    If you have LaTeX2e (which you should!) then to run the 
> program just type
> 
>    tex makebst 
> 
> It's a pain if you don't get it right because one has to do it all
> over again (as far as I know), but it can generate a bst for you.

I'm talking off the top of my head, but, if I recall correctly, makebst
saves some sort of ini file, which is human readable and which may be edited
to correct errors.

Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe