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Date:         Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:50:57 GMT
From: Phillip Helbig <helbig@MULTIVAC.JB.MAN.AC.UK>
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Subject:      Re: journal macros (not front matter)
Status: R

Both quotes from Patrick Daly:

> > > 2. Most journal style files (few issue classes) do include extra features
> > >    for handling tables, figure captions, references, sublabelling
> > >    equations. Much of this can be handled by existing packages, such as
> > >    my natbib.
> >
> Natbib cannot do this at all. I was talking about other packages of mine
> (which I have never publically released). Here natbib was only meant as
> one example of an additional package to meet journals' special requests,
> in this case, author-year citation.
>
> There has been a great deal said about my natbib package in this discussion.
> I shall send out a short overview of it in a following message, for
> those readers who have never used it.

I've been away for a while and am catching up on the discussion.  As a
recent convert to natbib, I can welcome the overview to introduce new
users.  Also, details on these other packages would be interesting (no
need to reinvent the wheel...)


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