From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5536 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: m-bib: passing extra information to \cite Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 12:42:00 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010907124030.02512458@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010906214816.00a7bd90@public.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396123 2516 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:02:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: Taco Hoekwater In-Reply-To: <3B988205.D0802432@elvenkind.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5536 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5536 At 10:15 AM 9/7/2001 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >\cite{..} is accepted as meaning the same as \cite[..]. It is in there >because existing databases use this syntax when refering to other items >in the database. But: it is very latexy and not in sync with the context >rule that typeset arguments use {} and setup arguments use []. one way out there is \pushmacro\cite \def\cite#1{....} .... load database .... \popmacro\cite unless of course \cite is part of dbase entries Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------