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From: jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX bibliography question
Keywords: LaTeX, \cite, \@citex
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Date: 26 Feb 91 01:40:00 GMT
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In article <1895@borg.cs.unc.edu> Geoffrey D. Alexander writes:
|> I am using bibtex to generate my bibliography.  I specify
|> \bibliographystyle{plain}.  When I have a multiple reference citation
|> \cite{bun83,cl73,lov78,pla90}, the references are separated by spaces
|> [1, 2, 5, 7].  Does anyone know how to get rid of the spaces?  I want
|> [1,2,5,7].
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Geoff Alexander
|> alexande@cs.unc.edu

In my copy of latex.tex:
>% \penalty\@m added to definition of \@citex to allow a line
>% break after the `,' in citations like [Jones80,Smith77]
>% (Added 23 Oct 86)
>%
>% space added after the `,' (21 Nov 87)
>%
>\def\@citex[#1]#2{\if@filesw\immediate\write\@auxout{\string\citation{#2}}\fi
>  \def\@citea{}\@cite{\@for\@citeb:=#2\do
>    {\@citea\def\@citea{,\penalty\@m\ }\@ifundefined
>       {b@\@citeb}{{\bf ?}\@warning
>       {Citation `\@citeb' on page \thepage \space undefined}}%
>\hbox{\csname b@\@citeb\endcsname}}}{#1}}

So... just take it out.

-- 
James Darrell McCauley (jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu, jdm5548@tamagen.bitnet)
Spatial Analysis Lab, Department of Agricultural Engineering,
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2117, USA