[latexrefman] node "(latex2e) thebibliography" and "Tame the beast"
Vincent Belaïche
vincent.belaiche at gmail.com
Sun Oct 8 23:42:00 CEST 2017
Hello Karl,
I did the fix, except that I removed all together the statement about
making \refname empty, see my comment below...
Le 08/10/2017 à 00:11, Karl Berry a écrit :
> - article.cls : \refname
> - book.cls : \bibname
> - report.cls : \bibname
>
> The sources are definitive, so I guess latex2e.texi should be updated.
> It is too bad that different macros are used.
>
> Just as a side remark, \bibname is used with \chapter*, and \refname
> with \section*.
>
> That seems worth mentioning to me.
>
> Furthermore the statement that \def\refname{} will remove the title is
> not really true, because what you do is an empty title which is
>
> Agreed that typesetting an empty title is different from not typesetting
> anything. What I see in latex2e.texi is:
>
> ... For instance, this
> eliminates it entirely:
>
> @example
> \renewcommand@{\refname@}@{@}
> @end example
>
> I suggest simply changing that to say "eliminates it from the output".
Well, I am not so sure we can say that, because there is still vertical
spacing in the output. Also, in case of a class with an unstarred
\section, setting \refname/\bibname to empty would still leave the
section number. So, I am in opinion to remove alltogether that sort of
tip.
>
> Anyone who cares about actually removing it entirely can figure out what
> to do on their own; I see no reason why we have to provide recipes for
> that case. --thanks, karl.
Maybe we should make a reference to the tamethebeast document which
contains such usefull tricks and plenty of other information concerning
BibTeX-ing.
Vincent.
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