Multilingual bibliographies: The babelbib package
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This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation
may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can 
be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version 
supports Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
  In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography
of the bibliographies.
  Many of the standard and extended bibliography styles are available.

Please help me to add more languages to babelbib.

The file tugboat-babelbib.pdf is a draft of an article that has been
published in TUGboat. It contains a detailed documentation of the babelbib
package and how to extend it. The source code for this file is not included.
This article is about version 0.40 of this package but is up-to-date in most
parts.

Copyright 2003--2005 Harald Harders

This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
version 1 of the License, or any later version.



Installation:

automatic: - run make
	   - run make install
	 or
           - run make
           - copy *.sty, *.bst, and *.bdf to the correct places in the
             texmf tree
           - run texhash or the corresponding command of your distribution

by hand: - execute latex on babelbib.ins
         - execute latex on babelbib.dtx (2x)
         - copy *.sty, *.bst, and *.bdf to the correct places in the
           texmf tree
         - run texhash or the corresponding command of your distribution


To do:
- Add more languages.
- Test the different BibTeX styles.
- Add definition of \btxurldatecomment to Esperanto, Swedish, and Afrikaans.
- Test on whether the edition is given numerically. Then, write an ordinal
  number (idea by Nikos Platis and Robert Fuster).

2005-04-11
Harald Harders
h.harders@tu-bs.de
