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From: jmsellens@watdragon.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LaTeX cite command problem
Message-ID: <2333@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 18:02:04 EST
Article-I.D.: watdrago.2333
Posted: Sun Feb 22 18:02:04 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Feb-87 03:10:03 EST
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Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.UUCP (John M. Sellens)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2410@sunybcs.UUCP> miller@sunybcs.UUCP (Russ Miller) writes:
>Is there someway to change the \cite macro so that when the
>citations are printed that there are spaces between the citations?
>(Presumably, it would then be able to make a sensible line break.)

I had this question asked of me before, and since it may be of general
usefullness, I have taken the liberty of posting rather than mailing
directly.

Try putting this after your \documentstyle command (most stolen from
latex.tex version 2.09):

\makeatletter
\def\@citex[#1]#2{\if@filesw\immediate\write\@auxout{\string\citation{#2}}\fi
  \def\@citea{}\@cite{\@for\@citeb:=#2\do
    {\@citea\def\@citea{,\,}\@ifundefined
       {b@\@citeb}{{\bf ?}\@warning
       {Citation `\@citeb' on page \thepage \space undefined}}%
\hbox{\csname b@\@citeb\endcsname}}}{#1}}
\makeatother

I added the thin space (\,) after the , and I think this might solve
your problem.

John Sellens -- Logic Programming and Artificial Intelligence Group

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