[texhax] citing referenced texts

William Adams will.adams at frycomm.com
Wed Oct 18 17:58:39 CEST 2006


On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:21 AM, H V wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to automatically cite parts of
> books divided into chapters and verses (e.g. antic
> texts, the bible...). The idea would be to have a
> command as \write{the_republic6.1}, and the result
> would be to write down the first paragraph of the
> sixth chapter of "The republic". Has anybody written a
> code for that?

A quick and expedient way to handle this would be to break out all  
the possible sections as discrete files, then insert them using a  
traditional \input mechanism.

A more elegant solution would be to use the shell escape to interface  
w/ a program to generate such a file and then input it.

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications



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