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Tobias Brandvik

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May 27, 2002, 12:04:35 PM5/27/02
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I was just wondering how I can remove the number that appears before
the items in my bibliography. In the tex file I write

\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{pa} H.~Partl:
\emph{German \TeX},
TUGboat Volume~9, Issue~1 (1988)
\end{thebibliography}.

This turns up great except for the number in front of the reference
(which just is not appropriate in my context). How do I remove this
number?

Thanks for any help.

--Tobias Brandvik


Scott Pakin

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May 28, 2002, 1:45:22 PM5/28/02
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Tobias Brandvik wrote:
> I was just wondering how I can remove the number that appears before
> the items in my bibliography. In the tex file I write

Redefine \bibitem to discard its argument. (You probably want it to
do an "\item[]", since thebibliography is a list environment.)

-- Scott

Donald Arseneau

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May 28, 2002, 9:10:26 PM5/28/02
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Scott Pakin <pa...@uiuc.edu> writes:

Rather than that, it is better to redefine \@biblabel, which is meant for
such things. There is a complication with deciding on the indentation.
To eliminate the residula indent try

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{\hspace{-\labelsep}}
\makeatother


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Philipp Baecker

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May 29, 2002, 10:02:46 AM5/29/02
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BibTeX!

Donald Arseneau <as...@triumf.ca> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
yfiadqj...@triumf.ca...

Robin Fairbairns

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May 29, 2002, 11:39:59 AM5/29/02
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"Philipp Baecker" <philipp...@gmx.net> writes:
>BibTeX!

you should have that emblazoned on a banner; then you could pass
though alpine villages, and things.

seriously, though, what do you mean by it?

it doesn't seem to answer the question posed. even slightly.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge -- rf10 at cam dot ac dot uk

Philipp Baecker

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Jun 7, 2002, 2:23:43 PM6/7/02
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BibTeX provides various styles including ones that do not number entries.

"Robin Fairbairns" <r...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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Peter Flynn

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Jun 21, 2002, 6:54:53 PM6/21/02
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jurabib.

Numbered entries in bibliographies are a feature of publications in#the
natural sciences. The humanities use unnumbered entries. The jurabib
package -- designed for legal writing but with adaptations for other
disciplines -- has unnumbered entries by default.

///Peter

Sivaram Neelakantan

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Jun 28, 2002, 7:13:13 AM6/28/02
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"Donald Arseneau" <as...@triumf.ca> wrote in message
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Well, a small variation to the above question, when I use

\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{X}What is X\\
\emph{\url{http://www.....}}

with pdflatex, the generated pdf file has a relative link(which is the
bibitem no)to the right of the url too in addition to the normal
numbering on the left. How do i prevent that?


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