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I created a personal bibstyle with makebst and it works perfectly fine but i'd like to use that same file to create a personal citestyle to use instead of verbose-trad2. Is it possible ?

happybobby
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    That is definitely possible. Could you expand your question a bit, to make it more clear what you want? Make a small example document with one or two citations in it, show the current output, and explain what you want the output to be. That does not necessarily have to include your own .bst file, probably you can demonstrate what you want also with a standard style (and the solution will apply to your custom style as well). – Marijn Mar 05 '20 at 10:14
  • I write in french, so my bib standard for books is : Surname, Firstname, Title , Editor/Translator, Adress, Publisher, Date, page number. My personal bibstyle does that and I want verbose citestyle to respect that order and the separation marks in the footnotes. I found a solution with some macros to redefine the separators and the order but I wanted to know if there was a more simple solution – happybobby Mar 05 '20 at 11:43
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    It is still not entirely clear (to me at least) what you mean with verbose citestyle, how you want to incorporate this in your LaTeX code, and how this will interact with other parts of your code related to citations. For suggesting solutions or approaches it would help if you would post the code for a small document that shows your current approach, and a description of which parts of the current approach you dislike and which parts of the output you want to be different. – Marijn Mar 05 '20 at 13:13
  • Note that .bst files (bibliography styles for BibTeX) are completely incompatible with biblatex (you mention verbose-trad2). There is no way to use a .bst produced with makebst together with biblatex and by extension with verbose-trad2. – moewe Mar 05 '20 at 19:11

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makebst produces .bst files for use with classical BibTeX. biblatex does not use .bst files for formatting (indeed if you use Biber as recommended, no .bst file is involved at all) instead it uses .bbx files for the bibliography style and .cbx files for the citation style. See also How to use custom bibstyle with biblatex and Modify BibteX Style in usepackage[style=nature]{biblatex}.

Since verbose-trad2 is a biblatex style, you can not use it together with the .bst file produced by makebst. If you want to use verbose-trad2 you need to write your bibliography style in biblatex (cf. Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles).

But if it is possible to recreate the bibliography style you want with makebst, it should also be possible to recreate it in biblatex.

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