Inproceedings

[russella]

Dear Marco,

I am adding this issue as a placeholder for implementing the inproceedings entry type. (I know you did not initially plan to implement this.) If I have some bandwidth next weekend, perhaps I can contribute an implementation in terms of your already completed incollection entry type.

All the best, Alex

[marcodaniel]

Hi,

I have the motivation. I wasn't sure if the effort is useful, because I got no feedback to my answer here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/58152/how-to-emulate-the-traditional-bibtex-styles-plain-abbrv-unsrt-alpha-as-clo/69706#69706

regards Marco

[russella]

Dear Marco,

Honestly, I think this is one of the most important biblatex development projects I know about!

Meaning no offense to the authors, the stock biblatex style cannot be used for any real purposes because of the the odd layout decisions. The bibtex plain file, on the other hand, while not perfect, is used everyday for thousands of manuscripts in computer science and mathematics (my own areas). Note that other popular styles (plainnat) are also fairly faithfully based on plain: your style file will get people attempting to imitate those 90% of the way there.

As an example, I develop the LaTeX codebase for the journal Theory of Computing (http://theoryofcomputing.org). We use a bibtex style that is within small edit distance of plain: the fact that there has been no style that emulates plain has kept us from moving to biblatex. Your style file will permit us to finally take the plunge, and awesome service.

All the best, Alex

On 9/29/12 1:56 PM, Marco Daniel wrote:

Hi,

I have the motivation. I wasn't sure if the effort is useful, because I got no feedback to my answer here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/58152/how-to-emulate-the-traditional-bibtex-styles-plain-abbrv-unsrt-alpha-as-clo/69706#69706

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/marcodaniel/trad-biblatex/issues/10#issuecomment-9006362.

Alexander Russell Professor, Computer Science and Engineering & Mathematics University of Connecticut

[marcodaniel]

Hi,

thanks. Your words increase my motivation.

regards Marco

[marcodaniel]

Hi,

I copied the following inproccedings entry of the file xampl.bib to implement the first step of inproccedings

@INPROCEEDINGS{inproceedings-full,
   author = "Alfred V. Oaho and Jeffrey D. Ullman and Mihalis Yannakakis",
   title = "On Notions of Information Transfer in {VLSI} Circuits",
   editor = "Wizard V. Oz and Mihalis Yannakakis",
   booktitle = "Proc. Fifteenth Annual ACM" # STOC,
   number = 17,
   series = "All ACM Conferences",
   pages = "133--139",
   month = mar,
   year = 1983,
   address = "Boston",
   organization = ACM,
   publisher = "Academic Press",
   note = "This is a full INPROCEDINGS entry",
}

Based on this entry I have started the modification. The current result of trad-plain is equal to \bibliographystyle{plain}.

regards Marco

[russella]

Dear Marco, Fantastic! --Alex

P.s. I'll be away for most of this week. I should be able to return to testing (and offering whatever other help I can) next weekend. Thanks again for your efforts.