Sanjoy,
thanks for your rely. Of course you're quite right, this is the wau
to go, and it works. But my question was imprecise because I did not
mention what was causing the problem: I'm working with split
bibliographies and want to refer in chapter 2 to an item already
included in the biblio of chapter 2. If I just put a \cite command
somewhere, this item will be included a second time in the list of
chapter 2. So my question is: this item does already have a counter
attached to it. Is it possible to refer to this raw counter across
chapters? Like so:
Chapter 1
[1] main reference
Chapter 2
[2] another thing
[3] and yet another [reprinted in [1]]
without having [1] main reference repeated. This my very well be
impossible, I'm just wondering.
Thanks, and all best
Thomas
On Sep 9, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
>> Is it possible to refer back to item [1] automatically, by sticking
>> the "reprinted in" in a "note" field in the database? I tried a
>> number of combinations of \crossref or so, but couldn't get this to
>> work.
>
> I need to repeat my experiments, but I think it worked to use simply
> \cite in the bibtex entry. Ah, here is one example. It uses
> xampl.bib, which comes with old distributions of ConTeXt (e.g. teTeX
> 3.0's distribution).
>
> [Taco: The reference to Knuth below comes out as (Knuth, 1981c) even
> though there are no other 1981 entries for Knuth cited in the text.
> Is that hard to fix given ConTeXt's way of dealing with bibtex, in
> that it just incorporates the entire database, in which there are
> several 1981 entries from Knuth?]
>
> ===================== cut here ========
> \usemodule[bib]
> \usemodule[bibltx]
> \setupbibtex[database=xampl]
> \starttext
>
> Here is a citation to a book that contains a cross reference:
> \cite[book-crossref]. The bibliography entry (next page) for it
> should contain a bib reference to another item in the bibliography.
>
> \completepublications
> \stoptext
> ===================== cut here ========
>
> Here are the relevant entries from xampl.bib, which indicates that
> it's the crossref= line that you need (not \cite as I said above)v:
>
> @BOOK{book-crossref,
> crossref = "whole-set",
> title = "Seminumerical Algorithms",
> volume = 2,
> series = "The Art of Computer Programming",
> edition = "Second",
> year = "{\noopsort{1973c}}1981",
> note = "This is a cross-referencing BOOK entry",
> }
>
> @BOOK{whole-set,
> author = "Donald E. Knuth",
> publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
> title = "The Art of Computer Programming",
> series = "Four volumes",
> year = "{\noopsort{1973a}}{\switchargs{--90}{1968}}",
> note = "Seven volumes planned (this is a cross-referenced set of
> BOOKs)",
> }
>
> -Sanjoy
>
> `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
> --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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