Re: [AUCTeX-devel] amsrefs support in reftex

[Tassilo Horn]

Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Marcin,

> Amsrefs is a (sort of) replacement for Bib(La)TeX.  Unlike those
> tools, it is written completely in TeX.  The disadvantage of amsrefs
> is that it can't sort entries - you have to take care of that
> manually.  The advantage is that you program the bibliographic style
> completely in TeX, e.g. in yur preamble (and in an easy way, though
> not as powerful as BibLaTeX), so you can have everything (article, bib
> style and bib entries) in a single file.  (Defining custom field and
> entry types is also very easy, all within LaTeX.)

Uh, that sounds quite complicated to integrate into RefTeX.  Basically,
you have to have something similar to `reftex-parse-bibtex-entry' or
`reftex-parse-bibitem' for amsrefs entries which knows about custom
entry types and fields.

Bye,
Tassilo