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

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> 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.

You can try this:

   \def\silentcite[#1]%
     {\bgroup
      \let\addthisref\gobbleoneargument
      \cite[#1]%
      \egroup}

(untested). If that does not work, it is not possible.

Taco