Re: m-bib: passing extra information to \cite

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:48 PM 9/7/2001 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>Hans Hagen wrote:
> >
> > \definecomplexorsimple\cite
> >
> > now \cite[bla] and \cite{bla} both work (but i favor the [] only approach).
>
>Roughly speaking, this is what happens now. But soon we will probably have
>calling conventions like \cite[...][...][..=..] or \cite {..}[..][..]{..}
>(more or less the same as for \in), and supporting the latex syntax is
>getting problematic. Besides that, there is usually other stuff wrong
>with bibtex (latex) databases, like commands that are defined in the
>preamble using \newcommand; \text... commands in the text; etc.
>
>Eventually, I plan to phase out bibtex alltogether, and replace it with
>an XML input filter (with a formalized DTD).

that's indeed the way to go, [and them write a perl script that converts 
bin databases).

we can discuss this at eurotex

Hans
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