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CTAN package update: opcit

CTAN Announcements

2006-09-21, 7:10 pm

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: opcit
Author's name: Federico Garcia
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/opcit
Summary description: Version 2 of opcit
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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This is a fully reworked and completed release of opcit, the package
for footnote-style bibliography.

The package keeps track of what works have already been cited, so that
a further citation produces "Idem" or "op. cit." (both of which are
customizable, both globally and locally).

New features include a complete bst file; corrections or improvements
suggested by users of the first version; cross references between
entries and between footnotes; and more.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/mac...x/contrib/opcit
.. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPac...ion.py?id=opcit
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

Luis Rivera

2006-09-21, 7:10 pm

CTAN Announcements wrote:

> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a fully reworked and completed release of opcit, the package
> for footnote-style bibliography.
>
> The package keeps track of what works have already been cited, so that
> a further citation produces "Idem" or "op. cit." (both of which are
> customizable, both globally and locally).
>
> New features include a complete bst file; corrections or improvements
> suggested by users of the first version; cross references between
> entries and between footnotes; and more.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>

Federico,

I find the "hereafter" field for bib files required by opcit as
somewhat redundant;
other packages (oxford-en, and the new biblatex) ask for a "shorttitle"
field, which does exactly the job you ask for. I'd suggest you support
that field, which is slightly more informative.

Thanks,

Luis.

Roman Sigg

2006-09-26, 8:45 am

CTAN Announcements <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu> writes:
> The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
> your favorite mirror.
>
> Thanks again,
> Jim Hefferon
> Saint Michael's College
>
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
>
> Name of contribution: opcit
> Author's name: Federico Garcia> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/opcit
> Summary description: Version 2 of opcit
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a fully reworked and completed release of opcit, the package
> for footnote-style bibliography.
>
> The package keeps track of what works have already been cited, so that
> a further citation produces "Idem" or "op. cit." (both of which are
> customizable, both globally and locally).
>
> New features include a complete bst file; corrections or improvements
> suggested by users of the first version; cross references between
> entries and between footnotes; and more.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>

I can't see right now, what the advantages to jurabib are. It provides
the same functionalities and a lot more. And it has also a shorttitle
and shortauthor field if needed.

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