On 12/16/2009 08:32 AM, Achim Zeileis wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Michael Friendly wrote: > >> Achim and others: >> >> Achim's solution could be directly usable if it also added a BibTeX key, >> perhaps just the name of the package to the '@Manual{,' initial line >> of each. I wrapped the previous suggestions in a function, and played >> around with the components, but can't quite see how to account for the >> failed citation calls. Can anyone take the next step? > > I had also thought about this after sending my previous solution, so > here is an update Michael's version of the function (renamed to the > name of the default file). Apart from some smaller touch-ups this has > the following changes: > > - Instead of taking the unique() bibs, I now use the unique() pkgs. > > (In principle, packages with the same name could be installed in > different libraries, potentially containing different citations. > But I thought it would be overkill to check for that.) > > - Citation keys are simply "pkgname" if there is only a single > BibTeX item, and "pkgname1" to "pkgnameN" if there are N BibTeX > items. > > (This does not assure that citation keys are unique, though. If > there is a package "foo" with 2 citation entries and another package > "foo2" with only a single entry, these could be confused. A > workaround > would be to use "pkgname1" instead of "pkgname" as the citation key > even if there is a single citation only. But I thought that would > be less intuitive.) Another possibility would be to use pkgname_versionnumber (e.g. lattice1226). This would probably provide uniqueness and if used on subsequent updates of packages does not break older (latex) documents where previous versions of packages were used. Just a thought.
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