[aklug] Re: LaTeX / BibTex question

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Christopher Howard wrote:
> Question for one of you LaTeX geniuses:
>
> I'm trying to learn to use LaTex for the first time. I understand (I
> think) that you put the reference in the BibTex file, something like so:
>
> @Book{ herklots,
> author = {H.G.G. Herklots},
> title = {How Our Bible Came To Us},
> publisher = {Oxford University Press},
> year = {1957},
> address = {New York},
> pages = {11-12},
> }
>
> And you cite it (I think) with something like \cite{herklots}. But if
> you make another quotation from the same book later on from, say, page
> 245, do you have to repeat all the above information in a new BibTex
> @Book entry? Or is there some way to say use the same record, but with a
> different page number? Or am I totally off track on how this whole
> system works? :]
>

Forget it... figured it out on my own. I had mistakenly assumed that the
page number of the citation went in the "pages" field in the BibTeX
entry. Actually, the page number goes in the citation, like so:

 \cite[11-12]{herklots}

The "pages" field in the BibTeX entry is for the total number of pages
in the book, or the page numbers of the article in the journal.

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Christopher Howard
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