On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:00:08 -0700 (MST), William wrote:
Personally I like 'real' cross-referencing better than filling in fields in order to minimize the number of keystrokes in the BIB file.
I suppose that's a valid sentiment, although it saves many, many keystrokes when your bib file is full of proceedings and journal articles. Plus it looks fairly silly to reference the proceedings when you reference only one or two of the articles in it (the same goes for books, journals, etc.). Oh well... until I'm willing to write my own package I suppose I have to play along or go back to LaTeX.
If there are more people that agree with you I might change my mind ...
However, the entry for the proceedings themselves have the wrong number, they get reset and start over from 1 e.g.
Do You know of any way around this, or am I just going to have to manually edit the bbl file?
You could always \cite the proceedings manually. If you put the reference in a \setbox command it wont show up in the running text, like so: \setbox0\hbox{\cite[XX]} Wrt to your other questions: could you send me your input file(s) or the exact settings you used? It will be (a lot) easier to re-enact your observations if I do not have to guess and invent stuff myself. -- groeten, Taco