>>>>> "John" == John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Citations are not at all similar to footnotes. When writing
John> articles for technical journals, or when writing a doctoral
John> thesis, you need to see what you're referring back to, or you'll
John> get hopelessly lost!
Agreed.
John> 1. Citation refs should wrap. I'd be surprised if they didn't
John> already.
They do not, since insets in general do not wrap.
John> 2. Citation refs should be *short*. That's what G*d gave us "el.
John> al." for. ;) I'm fairly certain that the cross-ref for a
John> citation is a writer-defined mnemonic, just like the names of
John> section cross-refs. Why choose something over half a line long?
It happens when you cite several documents in one cite inset, as in
JWeiss97,JWeiss98,JWeiss98a,JWeiss99,JWeiss2000.
JMarc
