Re: [Refdb-users] refdbib segfault

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Dylan Oliver writes:
 > The big secret, I discovered, is to comment out &bibliography; 
 > from short.xml before running make for the first time, to uncomment it,
 > and finally run make again. voila! Long as I searched through the docs, this
 > was NOT obvious; please spell it out in the tutorial or, better, find a
 > work-around (I tried adding '--novalid' to xsltproc's list of arguments
 > in runbib, but it didn't do the trick).
 > 
I'll use the workaround you suggested in a separate mail. I didn't
bother to fix this in the past as it is a non-fatal error that
shouldn't do any harm except that it doesn't look reassuring to start
with an error.

 > Oh, one more change for the docs: I noticed that the Y:author prefix
 > produces a reference number rather than year in the text - that is, a
 > (1) instead of a (2000). Be nice to have both options, really - maybe
 > the former could be accomplished by prefixing the key with an 'N:'. But
 > 'Y:' should really just print the year.
 > 
This is by design. The year should only be used in author/year
citation styles as far as I can tell from the journals that I read:

...as reported lately (Miller, 1999)
...as reported by Miller (1999)

...as reported lately (5)
...as reported by Miller (5)

Having both options is not a good thing as it would make switching
styles hard. Using prefixes that work only in author/year or only in
numbered citation styles is not a good thing IMHO.

regards,
Markus

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