On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Dear all (and esp. Taco), Maybe a bit of background, and please tell me if you think this is a stupid idea: every term, I have to prepare lists of references for my several classes, and there usually is a lot of repetition and overlap. So I'm dreaming of having one big bibtex database and producing the lists via assorted \nocite commands. But i usually split up these bibliographies into several sections, and I want all items numbered in sequence, so I have in my source:
\section{One}
\nocite[myfirst] \nocite[mysecond]
\placepublications
\section{Two}
\nocite[mythird] \nocite[myfourth]
\placepublications
I do not know anything about feasibility, but have a suggestion for the input syntax. How about if there is \definecitemethod[one] \definecitemethod[two] after which you can do \cite[method=one][myfirst] or \nocite[method=one][mysecond] and also \cite[method={one,two}][ref] and so on. And to obtain a list of bibliographies, do \placepublications[method=one] I am not sure whether this is same as how criteria works right now. Do you think that a syntax like this makes sense? Aditya