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+BibTeX_ is a bibliographic database format and processing tool often
+used with LaTeX.
+
+.. _BibTeX: http://www.bibtex.org/
+
+sawsim.bib
+==========
+
+I maintain the bibliography format with pybtex_. The actual command
+used to re-format the files is
+
+ $ python -c 'from pybtex.database.input.bibtex import Parser; from pybtex.database.output.clean_bibtex import Writer; p = Parser(); d = p.parse_file("src/sawsim.bib"); w = Writer(); w.write_file(d, "src/sawsim.bib", p.get_raw_macros())' 2> pybtex.log
+
+Be sure to look over `pybtex.log` and `git diff src/sawsim.bib` for
+anything suspicious before committing the new file. You may have to
+do some find-and-replacing to handle changed keys and consolidate or
+rename automatically generated macros.
+
+.. _pybtex: http://pybtex.sourceforge.net/
+
+% which I can kindof achieve with
+% $ bibtool -f '%-1n(author)%2d(year)' wtk.bib -o wtk1.bib
+% Except any paper with more than one author has a '.ea' appended to the name
+% and bibtool removes all comments :(.
+
+
+Basic usage
+===========
+
+At some point in your LaTeX document
+
+ \bibliographystyle{prsty} % Phys. Rev. style
+
+other syles include `abbrv`, `alpha`, `plain`, `unsrt`, ...
+In your LaTeX document where you want the bibliography:
+
+ \bibliography{wtk} % wtk.bib is the name of the database
+
+compile (using `latex` for example) with
+
+ $ latex example
+ $ bibtex example
+ $ latex example
+ $ latex example
+
+Natbib
+======
+
+The Natbib package adds support for other citation styles & link
+formats.
+
+Makebst
+=======
+
+Customize bibliography with Makebst (`latex makebst`), makes `.bst`
+(bib-style) format files according to your specifications.
+
+References
+==========
+
+There are a number of good resources to get you going:
+
+* very basic tutorial:
+ http://cmtw.harvard.edu/Documentation/TeX/Bibtex/Example.html
+* process overview:
+ http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial3.html
+* entry types reference
+ http://newton.ex.ac.uk/tex/pack/bibtex/btxdoc/node6.html
+* fields reference
+ http://newton.ex.ac.uk/tex/pack/bibtex/btxdoc/node7.html
+* entry and fields reference, but with little discussion
+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX
+* examples of assorted styles
+ http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html
+* assorted tools
+ http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Bib.Format.html
+* Nelson Beebe's list of bibliographies
+ http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/bibliographies.html
+* Nelson Beebe's GNU bibliography
+ http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.html