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@@ -7,8 +7,13 @@ citing command, is often useful in large documents.
<p/>Two packages support this requirement, <i>backref</i> and
<i>citeref</i>. <i>Backref</i> is part of the
<i>hyperref</i> bundle, and supports hyperlinks back to the citing
-command. <i>Citeref</i> is the older, and seems to rely on rather
-simpler (and therefore possibly more stable) code. Neither collapses
+command.
+<p/><i>Citeref</i> is the older, and seems to rely on rather simpler
+(and therefore possibly more stable) code; it produces a list of page
+references, only. It doesn&rsquo;t interact well with other citation
+packages (for example, <i>cite</i>), which probably reflects its
+antiquity (it&rsquo;s derived from a LaTeX 2.09 package).
+<p/>Neither collapses
lists of pages (&ldquo;<code>5, 6, 7</code>&rdquo; comes out as such, rather than as
&ldquo;<code>5&ndash;7</code>&rdquo;), but neither package repeats the reference to a page that
holds multiple citations. (The failure to collapse lists is of course
@@ -16,8 +21,8 @@ forgiveable in the case of the <i>hyperref</i>-related
<i>backref</i>, since the concept of multiple hyperlinks from the
same anchor is less than appealing.)
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-<dt><tt><i>backref.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/hyperref</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>citeref.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/citeref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/citeref</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/citeref/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>backref.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/hyperref</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>citeref.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/citeref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/citeref</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/citeref/">browse the directory</a>)
</dl>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=backref">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=backref</a>
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