Q:

Splitting a bibliography: how to overcome Multibib/Latex's file limitation (16 max)

I'm writing a thesis where I'm asked to split the bibliography into different sections, and so far I've been using Multibib which was really perfect for what I wanted to do:
\newcites{ltex}{\TeX\ and \LaTeX\ References}
...
\bibliographystyleltex{alpha}
\bibliographyltex{lit}

But I'm now facing a limitation regarding the number of files I'm allowed to use, as described in the Multibib documentation:

The tiny \newcites command is not limited to one bibliography. In fact, you
  can generate as much bibliographies as you like (only limited by the maximum
  number of TEX’s output files, usually 16).

Is there any way to easily bypass this limitation? (I can't reduce the number of sections, and I would like to keep Bibtex --- AFAIU splitbib doesn't)
Many thanks,

A:

I'd look at biblatex, which does a single read of all of the data (at the start of your file). (BTW, you might get more answers at the new TeX-specific site http://tex.stackexchange.com)

