Formatting citations

You may wish to change Eplain's formatting of citations; i.e., the result of your \cite commands. By default, the citation labels are printed one after another, separated by commas and enclosed in brackets, using the main text font. Some formats require other styles, such as superscripted labels. You can accomodate such formats by redefining the following macros.

\printcitestart

\printcitefinish

Eplain expands these macros at the begining and end of the list of citations for each \cite command. By default, they produce a `[' and `]', respectively.

\printbetweencitations

If a \cite command has multiple citations, as in \cite{acp,texbook}, Eplain expands this macro in between each pair of citations. By default, it produces a comma followed by a space.

\printcitenote

This macro takes one argument, which is the optional note to the \cite command. If the \cite command had no note, this macro isn't used. Otherwise, it should print the note. By default, the note is preceded with a comma and a space.

Here is an example, showing you could produce citations as superscripted labels, with the optional notes in parentheses.

\def\printcitestart{\unskip $^\bgroup}
\def\printbetweencitations{,}
\def\printcitefinish{\egroup$}
\def\printcitenote#1{\hbox{\sevenrm\space (#1)}}