Return-Path: Received: from relay2.vsu.ru ([62.76.169.17] verified) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.3) with ESMTP id 1280937 for CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:33:11 +0300 Received: by relay2.vsu.ru (Postfix, from userid 5) id 9FC9019D0; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:33:05 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA02786; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:26:48 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: vvv.vsu.ru: vvv set sender to vvv@vvv.vsu.ru using -f To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru Subject: Re: BibTeX and cyrillic References: From: Vladimir Volovich Date: 31 Jan 2000 00:26:47 +0300 In-Reply-To: Ilia Chipitsine's message of "Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:46:25 +0500 (ES)" Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "IC" == Ilia Chipitsine writes: IC> are they friends ?? if so, how can I specify encoding ?? there are (at least) two variants of bibtex: a standard one which is distributed with teTeX, and an `8-bit bibtex' available at CTAN:biblio/bibtex/8-bit, which contains enhancements in encoding area (e.g. you can specify encodings of your bibtex databases, sorting rules, etc). it is not difficult to build `8-bit bibtex' under teTeX (and probably it will be included in one of the future releases), and then you could specify encoding in the command line options (see the documentation). it you're using the standard bibtex, it is also possible to process files with russian bibliography (however not as "cleanly" as with 8-bit bibtex). you could use e.g. an `rubibtex' script which is part of the T2 package: CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/t2/etc/rubibtex/ it is even included into the standard teTeX. read the documentation in the README in the rubibtex directory. rubibtex supports koi8-r encoding, and it is not hard to adapt it to any other desired encoding. Best regards, -- Vladimir.