On 24.03.05, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Stefano Franchi wrote:
>
> >Can anyone explain how to get BibTeX to correctly parse a citation to an
> >article in a book when the .bib file uses the crossref mechanism? For
> >example, here is a minimal file:
> >
> >@incollection{Vamvoukakis1980,
> > Author = {Nicolas Vamvoukakis},
> > Crossref = {Aubenque1980}, Pages = {253-269},
> > Title = {Les cat{\'e}gories aristot{\'e}liennes d'action et de
> >passion vues par Simplicius},
> > Year = {1980}}
> > @book{Aubenque1980,
> > Address = {Paris},
> > Editor = {Pierre Aubenque},
> > Publisher = {Vrin},
> > Title = {Concepts et cat{\'e}gories dans la pens{\'e}e antique},
> > Year = {1980}}
>
> Stefano,
>
> The referenced work _may_ need to start at column 1, as does the citation.
AFAIK, all whitespace is equivalent in bibtex (see example file btxdoc.bib
that comes with bibtex (/usr/share/doc/texmf/bibtex/base/btxdoc.bib on my
Debian system)).
I cannot find an error, but studying the bibtex documentation in
btxdoc.dvi might give some advice.
> If you are citing only a single chapter from a collection a direct
> reference (rather than a cross reference) is simpler and it does work. At
> least it does for me.
Copying the fields instead of a crossref is of course a "quick and dirty"
workaround.
Guenter
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