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First of all, since this is my first message here, thank you all for your invaluable answers I have found so far. I have searched and found many answers here already and usually they were of the highest quality. Awesome!

Now, my question: I am using alpha.bst for the bibliography. Maybe it's a bad solution, but I'd rather change alpha.bst directly than mess around with other BibTeX styles. It seems all of them have their advantages, but none seems to offer everything I want.

Which brings me to my question: alpha.bst is written in BAFLL by Drew McDermott. Does anyone know if there is a documentation of that language? I can deduce some workings by reading the source code of alpha.bst, but it would be easier to just read a documentation.

David Carlisle
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    texdoc tamethebeast, particularly part 4. You can find it online at http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf – egreg Apr 09 '13 at 15:16
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    I've never heard of BAFLL or 'Drew McDermott': link? BibTeX .bst files are written in BibTeX's stack language which doesn't have a name: probably the best guide is Tame the BeaST. – Joseph Wright Apr 09 '13 at 15:17
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    @JosephWright wikipedia's bibtex entry says he called the bibtex language that acronym (it doesn't mention that no one else calls it that:-) – David Carlisle Apr 09 '13 at 15:49
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    Note that the bibtex wikipedia entry states that a certain Drew McDermott (I have no idea who this person is) called the language used in bibtex style files "BAFLL". The claim is not that Drew McDermott actually invented or created "BAFFL"... – Mico Apr 09 '13 at 17:03
  • @egreg: your link seems to do the trick. I would have upvoted this if it would have been an answer. – cxxl Apr 09 '13 at 20:09
  • @egreg: you may be right. The mentioned article has even more information in it. – cxxl Apr 09 '13 at 20:24

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