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From: plaut@sc2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Making \thebibliography a section
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.145230.360@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 15 Jan 91 12:52:30 GMT
References: <EbYRRo_00WB9IA0Wc1@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <EbYRRo_00WB9IA0Wc1@andrew.cmu.edu>, jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Leavitt) writes:
> Folks-
> 
> I would like very very much to make it so that the thebibliorgaphy
> environment in article.sty makes "References" by using \section and not
> \section*.  I tried just copying article.sty and making the change there,
> but I get the following error:
> 
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=60].
> \@mkboth #1#2->
>                \gdef \@themark {{#1}{#2}}{\let \protect \noexpand \let \labe...
> 
> \@themark ...nces\@mkboth {REFERENCES}{REFERENCES}
>                                                   }}{}
> \@mkboth #1#2->\gdef \@themark
>                                {{#1}{#2}}{\let \protect \noexpand \let \labe...
> 

You could try to take the \markboth command out of the \section command
in the article.sty:

\def\thebibliography#1{\section{References}
 \markboth{REFERENCES}{REFERENCES}
 \list
 {[\arabic{enumi}]}{\settowidth\labelwidth{[#1]}\leftmargin\labelwidth
 \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
 \usecounter{enumi}}
 \def\newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus -.07em}
 \sloppy
 \sfcode`\.=1000\relax}
\let\endthebibliography=\endlist

It works ! Don't ask me why. There are some other ugly 
possibilities, such as deleting the word 'References' in
article.sty and just put a space instead and then to
put a normal \section{References} in your source file.
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