TeX Hour: Thu 14 September: 2025 Problems - BibTeX

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

I'm delighted that this week Nelson Beebe will be describing BibTeX, and problems he'd like to have solved by the end of 2025.

TeX Hour: Thursday 21 September, 6:30 to 7:30pm BST

TeX Hour URL: https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/21/2025-problems-bibtex/

Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09

BibTeX is part of LaTeX. It's described even in Lamport's 1994 LaTeX book. Nelson has contributed a rigorous grammar for BibTeX and friends, and pioneered the storage and retrieval of BibTeX records in SQL databases. Crucial here is that BibTeX is flexible. Each record can include fields relevant only for search and retrieval, which won't appear in a citation.

https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb14-4/tb41beebe.pdf

https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-2/tb95beebe.pdf

Nelson finds the combination of BibTeX and SQL enormously valuable for documenting publications in books and journals, and on specific subjects, and by and about specific authors. He also contributes to large shared libraries of BibTeX records.

If you have another topic you'd like to discuss sometime this year, please do send me a message.

The video from last week is available at:
URL: https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/14/2025-problems-value-added-typesetting/

with best regards

Jonathan

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

[Apologies for the wrong date in the subject line of my message a few minutes ago.]

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

There won't be a TeX Hour on Thursday 28 September. We'll be back on Thursday 5th October.

The video for last week, Nelson Beebe on 2015 Bibtex problems, is available at <https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/21/2025-problems-bibtex/>

with best regards

Jonathan