colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (11/06/86)
In article <2002@dciem.UUCP>, tjb@dciem.UUCP (Tim Bowden) writes: > One is a running citation, in which the authors' names > are included in the text and followed by the date in parentheses, e. g. > > "...results have been confirmed by Smith and Jones (1982)." > > and the other, used where the citation is not part of the text, has > both authors' names and date included in the parentheses, e. g. > > "...results have been confirmed by others (Smith and Jones, 1982)." > > In particular, it seems necessary for "bib" to alter the [F string > depending on whether a standard or alternative citation > format is used, or to create a string that invokes a conditional > troff instruction to put either an open parenthesis or a comma > between the authors' names and the date, depending on which > form was used. The second method is bound to be easier. If you use alternate [F strings, bib won't disambiguate references properly. Use a citation template like "3\*(((D\*())", and define parenthesizing macros by .ds (( ( .ds )) ) .de ( .ds (( , \& .ds )) \& (\c .. .de ) .ds (( ( .ds )) ) )\\$1 .. Now you can say results have been confirmed by [.smith jones.]. or results have been confirmed by others .( [.smith jones.] .) . Hope this works. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: colonel@sunybcs, csdsiche@sunyabvc