m-bib: passing extra information to \cite

["Eckhart Guthöhrlein" <eckhart_guthoehrlein@public.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi Taco,

(probably a question mainly for you)
I want to pass extra information to the \cite command, e.g. page numbers 
when citing a book. I didn't find a predefined way to do this in 
bibmod.pdf, and at the moment I'm using the following definition

\def\citeplus[#1][#2][#3]{%
    {%
       \setupcite[#1][right={, #3)}]%
       \cite[#1][#2]%
    }%
}

and then, for example,

\citeplus[authoryears][SomeBook][S.~100]

This is of course not very elegant, so is there a better way? If not, I 
think the facility should be provided somehow in future versions of m-bib.
Apropos m-bib, there are those unresolved problems: 
\setupbibtex[sort=author] has no effect, and \cite[Xyz97] without the first 
(optional) argument gobbles the following space (just to remind you, I can 
work around it).
Ah, and another question (didn't try myself yet): If I want to use -- for 
page ranges, but I have pages={10-20} in my bib file, can this be done at 
the bibl-xxx.tex level? Or is it easier to change the cont-xx.bst file? 
Similar: what about a point after the title in the bib file, which I would 
like to remove because a point is added when typesetting the list of 
publications?

Eckhart