Re: m-bib: problems with several cited entries

[Peter Jander]

Date sent: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:45:22 +0100
To: Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: m-bib: problems with several cited entries
Copies to: "Eckhart Guth�hrlein"
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> At 10:03 AM 3/11/2002 +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> >On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 13:55:14 +0100
> >"Eckhart Guth�hrlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > After updating to the latest context beta, I tried to recompile an older
> > > file (11/2001). Citing several bib items in one \cite[..][bla1,bla2]
> > > results into the error message below. Citing only one item
> > > \cite[..][bla1] works fine.
> > >
> > > Eckhart
> >
> >I suspect Hans has changed something in one of the internal macros.
> >Cannot check right now since I don't have the beta installed.
>
> maybe we need a minimal testing suite for the bib thing (maybe there's a
> problem with some tricky comma list processing, since this module uses some
> of the more obscure low level macros)
>
I am using version 2002.3.4 and I didn't get any error message.
However, I noticed that if you cite more than two items like \cite[bla1,bla2,bla3,bla4], only the first two are put in the text [1-2], even though all are in the bibliography (that is with numbered refs and compression on).

I tracked that down to a bug in a macro called
\docompareitems in Syst-ext. The last line should read

\advance\scratchcounter \plusone}
instead of
\advance\scratchcounter \minusone}

otherwise an already sorted list will be reduced to the first two elements .

Regards,
Peter