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- From: ronaldk@sci.kun.nl (Ronald Kappert)
- Subject: Re: cite with white space - how?
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- References: <1992Dec21.132629.25089@allegra.att.com> <1992Dec22.014026.15821@allegra.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:53:22 GMT
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- In <1992Dec22.014026.15821@allegra.att.com> hgs@allegra.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec21.132629.25089@allegra.att.com> hgs@allegra.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne) writes:
- >>It would be nice if long lists of citations could be broken over several
- >>lines in the TeX **input** file (not the printed version). Currently,
- >>white space inserted into the \cite{} argument is not handled gracefully
- >>either by BibTeX or LaTeX. Thus, I want to be able to write
- >>\cite{first, second, third,
- >>fourth}.
- >>
- >>Any hints appreciated.
- >>----
- >>Henning Schulzrinne
- >>hgs@research.att.com
-
- >Judging from the answers, I did not make myself clear. Using % does not
- >work as it fails with rather bad consequences as soon as the ASCII
- >input text is reformatted to fit the screen. (In my example, it might
- >become \cite{first, second, third,% fourth} and eliminate the remainder
- >of the line in the process.) Furthermore, even blanks after commas
- >within \cite are not handled properly. Thus, I'm looking for a
- >modified version of \cite that treats its argument as comma-separated
- >parameters, ignoring any white space between the arguments. To me, that
- >would seem to be the intuitive way of defining such a command.
-
- In that case you want to try CITE.sty, available from e.g., niord.shsu.edu.
-
- Ronald Kappert
-