%% /u/sy/beebe/tex/biblex/README, Fri Dec 31 17:29:01 1993
%% Edit by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@plot79.math.utah.edu>

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This directory contains bibparse, biblex, bibunlex, and bibdup, a
suite of programs for support of BibTeX bibliography files.  They are
described in the following paper:

@String{TUGboat = "TUGBoat"}

@Article{Beebe:TB14-4-395-419,
  author =       "Nelson H. F. Beebe",
  title =        "Bibliography Prettyprinting and Syntax Checking",
  journal =      TUGboat,
  year =         "1993",
  volume =       "14",
  number =       "4",
  pages =        "395--419",
  note =         dec,
  bibdate =      "Fri Dec 31 12:15:07 1993",
}

The complete text of the TUGboat article is included with bibclean
2.08 and later versions.

You can find distributions of bibclean in a variety of formats in the
same place that you found the bibparse (et al) distribution.  The
master location is ftp.math.utah.edu:/pub/tex/bib.  Via electronic
mail, a message with the body

        help
        send index from tex/bib

to tuglib@math.utah.edu will get you started.

Three files in the distribution, biblex.c, bibparse.c, and bibunlex.c,
are generated by lex (or flex), and yacc (or bison).  Because of
sloppy coding practices in some vendor implementations of these
programs, it may not be possible to compile these three files on other
systems without either regenerating them, or modifying them by hand.

If you get compilation errors in any of these three files, save a copy
of them, and then do "make realclean" to get a distribution that will
require their regeneration.  However, if you do not have lex (or
flex), and yacc (or bison), then you should instead perform whatever
edits are necessary by hand to get them to compile.

Please report all problems, suggestions, and comments to the author:

        Nelson H. F. Beebe
        Center for Scientific Computing
        Department of Mathematics
        University of Utah
        Salt Lake City, UT 84112
        USA
        Tel: +1 801 581 5254
        FAX: +1 801 581 4148
        Email: <beebe@math.utah.edu>
