On 08.12.18 20:50, Alan Braslau wrote:
In my incremental development, I place a bibliography at the end of a chapter, part, or even section - there is no need for this to be backmatter. Using modes, these then can remain or not be rendered as design advances.
I've been following this thread somewhat distractedly... From a systematic point of view, Alan is of course right: a reference should refer to something, which is normally a list. However, I find myself in situations where I want a reference, but this list should not be included in the document. Example: you distribute a bibliographical list on your handout and want your slides to display the numeric reference, but not the list itself. So I wonder if one possible solution would be to provide the possibility to have the list calculated but not typeset (hidden). In a naive way, I tried something like \hbox to width 0cm{\placelistofpublications} but that doesn't work. But I'm sure this should be easily doable? As for something like full citation information in the footnote, with crossreference (something like "above, n. XXX"): the format seems obsolete, I agree, but at least in the humanities, it is still often used and would be very handy to have. All best Thomas