[l2h] Bug#37982: latex2html: wrong handling of more than one bibliography

[Ross MOORE]

> Hi,
> 
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> 
>         manoj
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> Package: latex2html
> Version: 99.1-1
> 
> Hi,
>  
>  the problem I want to describe here, occurs, for instance, if a
>  "multi chapter" document contains a bibliography at the end of
>  the whole document and another (in general shorter) bibliography
>  at the end of a certain chapter.
> 
>  The correct behaviour should be as follows: "Normal" references
>  outside this particular chapter are referring to the bibliography
>  at the end of the document, while only references inside this chapter
>  may refer to the bibliography at the end of the chapter (and/or to
>  the bibliography of the whole document, too). 
> 
>  The bug is, that every reference that is used in the document before
>  the first ("chapter only") bibliography refers to this bibliography,
>  although it doesn't contain the citation key. Therefore nearly all
>  links into the bibliography are wrong. References after this first
>  bibliography correctly link to the bibliography of the whole document.
>  This means, a reference always links to the next "physical" bibliography,
>  which however might be the wrong "logical" one.
> 
>  Greetings,
> 
>   Ulf
 
Sure.
LaTeX2HTML does not support multiple bibliographies correctly yet.
At least not in the default configuration.

Have you tried it with  \usepackage{natbib} ?
That is more highly developed, though I doubt that such a feature
works properly there yet.

Note that you need a special package for multiple bibliographies
in LaTeX. (Indeed, I believe that there is more than one.)
Such a package requires corresponding support in Perl
for this feature to be available to LaTeX2HTML.
The work for this has not yet been done, I fear.

Since it *almost* works, I'm sure it is a relatively small
job to "get things right".
If you send me a URL to access a sample document for testing,
then I'll endeavour to work on this for the next major update
of LaTeX2HTML.



Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore