Re: Citations, continued

[Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de>]

Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> writes:

> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

>> Citation types for extracting parts:
>>      citeauthor, citetitle, citeyear, citedate, citeurl,

> As I've said in other posts, I think maybe we should not think of
> these as `citation' commands and thus don't need to represent them
> in citation syntax. Instead I suggest we give authors tools to
> insert this information into documents directly.

This would render changes quite hard. Maybe I misspelled something in
the database or I choosed the wrong reference: With above part
extractors all I have to do at most is to replace the @key. But if
data is copied verbatim, I have to search for all years, author names,
titles, urls etc. Very error prone.

I think, even citeauthor or citeurl are citations. A normal "\cite"
command is nothing else than a short reference to all the detail data
in the bibliography. And sometimes context allows to make these
references even shorter, by only using the author name or a year etc.
I don't really see the distinction between citation and indirection -
each citation is as much an indirection as e.g. citeyear is.

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Until the next mail...,
Stefan.