[tex-live] natbib broken?
Arthur Ogawa
arthur_ogawa at sbcglobal.net
Sun Nov 8 22:32:34 CET 2009
On 2009-10-11, at 06:04 , Joseph Wright wrote:
> Edd Barrett wrote:
>
> ...the newer versions of natbib do proper checks on whether the bst
> file is author-date or numeric. The older natbib versions just
> change the citation style without telling you. There has been quite
> a bit of discussion of this!
I would be grateful to view the "quite a bit of discussion" on the
subject of what natbib does when the bst file is not compatible with
author-year citations. When a package like natbib changes its behavior
such that older documents produce an error, I am concerned.
The test document uses the standard article.cls, which formats the
bibliography as author-year, and uses plainnat.bst, which contains the
following comment:
> % For use with the `natbib.sty' package; emulates the corresponding
> % member of the `plain' family, but with author-year citations.
Has someone already looked into this problem? I am not seeing further
posts in this thread than the one cited above.
Arthur Ogawa
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