Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes: > Rasmus <ras...@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. -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.