Re: GREG -- questions and notes on your comments

From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 13:24:40 PDT

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    On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:12:47PM -0700, Greg Aldering wrote:
    > >Arg. I don't know the easy way to fix that in a citep command.
    >
    > Nor do I - leave it for later.

    A few versions of AASTeX back, when i was in grad school, I don't think
    they supported citet or citep at all-- only cite, with parentheses.
    (If they did support more, I didn't know about it.) This was obviously
    not enough, so I wrote my own LaTeX style file "astroref.sty" which did
    the main kinds of citation you wanted to do. It also had an option for
    keeping track of "P99" like citations, and automatically put the
    "hereafter cited as..." text the first time that reference showed up.
    What I'm doing right now is just using hte text P99 instead of a \cite
    command, but naturally it's preferable to just use a cite command for
    everything.

    I stopped using this a few years ago once AASTeX 5 came out, but a
    friend I have at Goddard was still using it as of last week (when I
    visited him).

    Also to go along with it was a perl script that would put all the
    non-standard citations into your text "by hand". I would run this perl
    script on the LaTeX just before submission, so that the subitted
    version wouldn't need the nonstandard style files.

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    -- 
    --Prof. Robert Knop
      Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
      robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
    


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