Re: YABQ (yet another bib question...)

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Sanjoy,

thanks for your rely. Of course you're quite right, this is the wau  
to go, and it works. But my question was imprecise because I did not  
mention what was causing the problem: I'm working with split  
bibliographies and want to refer in chapter 2 to an item already  
included in the biblio of chapter 2. If I just put a \cite command  
somewhere, this item will be included a second time in the list of  
chapter 2. So my question is: this item does already have a counter  
attached to it. Is it possible to refer to this raw counter across  
chapters? Like so:

Chapter 1

[1] main reference

Chapter 2

[2] another thing

[3] and yet another [reprinted in [1]]

without having [1] main reference repeated. This my very well be  
impossible, I'm just wondering.

Thanks, and all best

Thomas

On Sep 9, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

>> Is it possible to refer back to item [1] automatically, by sticking
>> the "reprinted in" in a "note" field in the database? I tried a
>> number of combinations of \crossref or so, but couldn't get this to
>> work.
>
> I need to repeat my experiments, but I think it worked to use simply
> \cite in the bibtex entry.  Ah, here is one example.  It uses
> xampl.bib, which comes with old distributions of ConTeXt (e.g. teTeX
> 3.0's distribution).
>
> [Taco: The reference to Knuth below comes out as (Knuth, 1981c) even
> though there are no other 1981 entries for Knuth cited in the text.
> Is that hard to fix given ConTeXt's way of dealing with bibtex, in
> that it just incorporates the entire database, in which there are
> several 1981 entries from Knuth?]
>
> ===================== cut here ========
> \usemodule[bib]
> \usemodule[bibltx]
> \setupbibtex[database=xampl]
> \starttext
>
> Here is a citation to a book that contains a cross reference:
> \cite[book-crossref].  The bibliography entry (next page) for it
> should contain a bib reference to another item in the bibliography.
>
> \completepublications
> \stoptext
> ===================== cut here ========
>
> Here are the relevant entries from xampl.bib, which indicates that
> it's the crossref= line that you need (not \cite as I said above)v:
>
> @BOOK{book-crossref,
>    crossref = "whole-set",
>    title = "Seminumerical Algorithms",
>    volume = 2,
>    series = "The Art of Computer Programming",
>    edition = "Second",
>    year = "{\noopsort{1973c}}1981",
>    note = "This is a cross-referencing BOOK entry",
> }
>
> @BOOK{whole-set,
>    author = "Donald E. Knuth",
>    publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
>    title = "The Art of Computer Programming",
>    series = "Four volumes",
>    year = "{\noopsort{1973a}}{\switchargs{--90}{1968}}",
>    note = "Seven volumes planned (this is a cross-referenced set of
>    BOOKs)",
> }
>
> -Sanjoy
>
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