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From: leland@cs.columbia.edu (Lee Woodbury)
Subject: Re: help - *.bst files
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.153925.25696@cs.columbia.edu>
Organization: Columbia University, Dept. of Computer Science, NYC
References: <1991Apr23.192138.1277@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 15:39:25 GMT

In article <1991Apr23.192138.1277@wpi.WPI.EDU> llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon) writes:
>      ...i need to modify the style file (*.bst) being used.
>i looked at /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/alpha.bst and had no
>idea what was going on. can you tell me what language on
>earth is it written in?

The bibtex(1) man page describes the postfix stack language used
in the .bst files.

Leland Woodbury
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