[comp.text.tex] line breaks within citations

joachim@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Joachim Posegga) (12/20/90)

In article <JG.90Dec17164743@msc8.prg.ox.ac.uk> jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) writes:
>Harmen van den Berg writes:
>
>> What I would like is that it appears as [van den Berg, Year] in the

This reminds me of the annoying 'Overfull \hbox' messages I usually get
when I use such a bitex style file. Has anybody got an idea how to allow
line breaks withing citations like '[foo & bar 90]'? (I'm not talking
about line breaks within multiple citations!)

Joachim.

nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck) (12/25/90)

In article <3703@aipna.ed.ac.uk> joachim@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Joachim Posegga) writes:
>In article <JG.90Dec17164743@msc8.prg.ox.ac.uk> jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) writes:
>>Harmen van den Berg writes:
>>
>>> What I would like is that it appears as [van den Berg, Year] in the
>
>This reminds me of the annoying 'Overfull \hbox' messages I usually get
>when I use such a bitex style file. Has anybody got an idea how to allow
>line breaks withing citations like '[foo & bar 90]'? (I'm not talking
>about line breaks within multiple citations!)
>
>Joachim.

It seems that what you want is breakcites.sty, available from
Clarkson. 

It redefines citex to take the citation out of a box. It seems to
work nicely. One hint. Since it redefines something defined in a bib
style, put it after your bib style (e.g. cslibib.sty) if you use
one. Also, when I modified cslibib.sty I couldn't figure out why it
didn't work until I remembered to modify citex in breakcites.sty.

Hope this helps

Neal Beck 
Dept of Politcal Science, UCSD
beck@ucsd.edu
Dislaimer: The Regents pay me (a bit!) to distribute my opinions.