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From: kris@diku.dk (Kristoffer H. Holm)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Citation in footnotes (the old-fashioned way)
Message-ID: <1991May2.204725.5315@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 2 May 91 20:47:25 GMT
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piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:

>>>>>> wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan) (BM) writes:
>BM> Sigh.  My daughter's English teacher wants citations done the
>BM> old-fashioned way (aka MLA style).  You know, a genuine footnote with
>BM> the full citation the first time a work is cited, then the usual 'op
>BM> cit' and 'ibid' in italics later on in the same chapter.  Et cetera ad
>BM> nauseum.

>The bibliography processor Tib can do this. It uses a preprocessor and it
>needs a refer bibliography. It could be done with BibTeX (I suppose) but it
>would take a lot of work.

Not that much work---I used a similar trick to integrate BibTeX with
AmS-TeX: How about (1) redefining \bibitem[KEY]{REF}{TEXT} so that it
defines some control sequece \REF@ (or whatever) that prints the TEXT
in a footnote and then (globally) redefines itself (i.e., \REF@) to
the appropriate 'ibid' or whatever, (2) redefine \cite{REF} to
generate just \REF@, and then (3) rereading the BibTeX .bbl file
(after the new definitions have effect but before the document) ?

Happy Haxing, kris
-- 
  Kristoffer H{\o}gsbro Holm                    <kris@diku.dk>
 Computer Science Dept. (TOPPS group), University of Copenhagen
  Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 Copenhagen {\O}  +45 31396466