[texhax] Curious bug in breakcites

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> Interesting, but it is still a bug and easy to fix at that.

Not so much a bug as an incompatibility.  Anyway, maybe, if you contact the
author of the breakcites package, he'll fix it.

Cheers,  Phil
 
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
> 
> >> If you compile the file:
> >>
> >> \documentclass{article}
> >> \usepackage{breakcites}
> >> \newcommand{\etal}{\emph{et al.}}
> >> \begin{document}
> >> \cite{ABC}
> >> \begin{thebibliography}{99}
> >> \bibitem[A \etal\ (2000)]{ABC}
> >> \end{thebibliography}
> >> \end{document}
> >>
> >> the output has an extra comma after the citation.  So far, I
> >> have found
> >> two ways to fix it:  take the period out of the definition of
> >> \etal and
> >> add it to the bibitem itself; or alter the definition of \@citex by
> >> replacing the last line of \@citex
> >>         {\csname b@\@citeb\endcsname}}}{#1}}
> >> with
> >>         {{\csname b@\@citeb\endcsname}}}}{#1}}
> >> (i.e. add another level of grouping).
> >> [snip]
> >
> > I suspect that it has to do with the \leavemode command in 
> the definition of
> > \emph.
> > Here are some more ways around the problem:
> >
> > 1. \newcommand{\etal}{\emph{et al}.}
> > 2. \newcommand{\etal}{\mbox{\emph{et al.}}}
> > 3. \newcommand{\etal}{{\it et al.}}
> >
> > Cheers,  Phil
> >
> 
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