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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thank you Phil for your reply.<BR>
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Your idea seems coincident with my initial thought. Thanks to the example at<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/mark/exe7.html">http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/mark/exe7.html</A><BR>
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I have found a quick (though not elegant) fix to this, so I post it here<BR>
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in case some one else might also be interested:<BR>
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Solution: Suppose the total number of references in myfile.bbl is 100, then<BR>
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\newcounter{pointnumber}<BR>
\setcounter{pointnumber}{101}<BR>
\makeatletter<BR>
\renewcommand*{\@biblabel}[1]{[\thepointnumber \addtocounter{pointnumber}{-1}]}<BR>
\makeatother<BR>
\input{myfile.bbl}<BR>
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The only disadvantage is that I need to supply the number 101 manually.<BR>
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Someone out there might have a better solution?<BR>
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Regards<BR>
<BR>
Sonny<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: Philip G. Ratcliffe [<A HREF="mailto:philip.ratcliffe@uninsubria.it">mailto:philip.ratcliffe@uninsubria.it</A>]<BR>
Sent: Tue 9/25/2007 9:41 PM<BR>
To: Duc Son Pham<BR>
Subject: RE: [texhax] Reverse numbering Bibliography<BR>
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> I've been reading through the documentation at<BR>
> <A HREF="http://www.tex.ac.uk">http://www.tex.ac.uk</A> and<BR>
> trying a number of packages but so far have not yet found a<BR>
> solution to<BR>
> a , I believe, simple Latex/Bibtex problem.<BR>
><BR>
> Any help would be much appreciated to the following question:<BR>
> "how could<BR>
> I tell Bibtex to reverse the order of numbering in the bibilography<BR>
> section?"<BR>
><BR>
> [snip]<BR>
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I don't know of any BibTeX styles that do this, but at a guess (i.e. I<BR>
haven't tried this), it should be possible to modify your favourite BibTeX<BR>
style file by changing the year it uses for ordering to, say 9999-year.<BR>
Sorry, I just haven't time to go into this further.<BR>
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Cheers, Phil<BR>
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