Static in the Ether

Following form my earlier post regarding a pre-compiled bibTeX database of all Internet RFCs, I discovered while browsing the CTAN archives that Richard Mortier wrote a awk script back in 2000 while at Cambridge Computing Lab, that does something similar. For purists who don’t trust this new fangled XML and XSLT stuff its available at: [...]

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Something I usually ask my students to do us to draw up a frequency table of their use of references in their Theses. This is useful to see if one is over-citing particular sources, or disregarding sources that are more significant. Up until now most have gone the paper and pencil route. Fred Otten came [...]

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Jabref ships with a rather useful HTML export feature, which produces some rather nice output for publishing a somewhat interactive version of your .bib files online, or even as an electronic appendix to a thesis. Mark Schenk has proviced some nice eexamples of other styles of export that one can use. Using these in conjunction [...]

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Roland Bless, has a rather useful resource of a set of BibTex information for all RFC documents for those working with RFC’s and needing to cite them using BibTex. Available for download is an automatically generated .bib database of all the current RFCs. The 1.8 meg .bib file is probably a little large for general [...]

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