[tex-live] natbib broken?
Daly Dr., Patrick
daly at linmpi.mpg.de
Tue Nov 17 10:21:52 CET 2009
Dear Arthur,
I apologize for not replying earlier, but I have been very busy, and will
also be travelling the rest of this month. I will get to this problem
soon(-ish). There are many other requests for "bug" fixes and new features,
none of which are trivial, so I need to find some time to work on all these.
I am just letting you know that I have not disappeared completely.
Best regards,
Patrick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Ogawa [mailto:arthur_ogawa at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: November 8, 2009 22:33
> To: Joseph Wright
> Cc: Edd Barrett; tex-live at tug.org; Patrick W. Daly
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] natbib broken?
>
>
> On 2009-10-11, at 06:04 , Joseph Wright wrote:
>
> > Edd Barrett wrote:
> >
> > ...the newer versions of natbib do proper checks on whether
> the bst
> > file is author-date or numeric. The older natbib versions just
> > change the citation style without telling you. There has
> been quite
> > a bit of discussion of this!
>
> I would be grateful to view the "quite a bit of discussion" on the
> subject of what natbib does when the bst file is not compatible with
> author-year citations. When a package like natbib changes its
> behavior
> such that older documents produce an error, I am concerned.
>
> The test document uses the standard article.cls, which formats the
> bibliography as author-year, and uses plainnat.bst, which
> contains the
> following comment:
>
> > % For use with the `natbib.sty' package; emulates the corresponding
> > % member of the `plain' family, but with author-year citations.
>
> Has someone already looked into this problem? I am not seeing
> further
> posts in this thread than the one cited above.
>
> Arthur Ogawa
>
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