# [texhax] Bibliography

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 12:33:14 CET 2008

 I have a very large bbl file looking as

\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibliographystyle{book}
\providecommand{\bysame}{\leavevmode\hbox to5em{\hrulefill}\thinspace}

\pagebreak[3]
\vspace{\baselineskip}\item[Arnold, V.~I.]
\nopagebreak
\bibitem[1]{arnold:geometrical}
{\em Geometrical Methods in the Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations},
\newblock Springer-Verlag (1983).

\bibitem[2]{arnold:classical}
{\em Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics}.
\newblock Springer-Verlag (1990).

(it is a legacy file). I am happy how bibliography looks like. However
I have an obvious problem with \cite{}:
\cite{arnold:geometrical} produces [1]  while I would prefer [Arnold
1] or similar more detailed output without forcing me to type
Arnold~\cite{arnold:geometrical}.

Relevant ansatz from preamble:

Any suggestions (how to modify .bbl file or to use different type of
bibliographystyle (without breaking how bibliography looks like) would
be appreciated

Thank you very much in advance

Victor