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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-compactbib.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-compactbib.html deleted file mode 100644 index 119777dc1fc..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-compactbib.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label compactbib</title> -</head><body> -<h3>Reducing spacing in the bibliography</h3> -<p/>Bibliographies are, in fact, implemented as lists, so all the -confusion about <a href="FAQ-complist.html">reducing list item spacing</a> also -applies to bibliographies. -<p/>If the <i>natbib</i> package ‘works’ for you (it may not if you are using -some special-purpose bibliography style), the solution is relatively -simple — add -<blockquote> -<pre> -\usepackage{natbib} -\setlength{\bibsep}{0.0pt} -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -to the preamble of your document. -<p/>The <i>compactbib</i> package has a similar effect. Its primary -purpose is to produce two bibliographies, and it seems to preclude use -of BibTeX (though the package documentation, in the package file -itself, isn’t particularly clear). -<p/>Otherwise, one is into unseemly hacking of something or other. The -<i>mdwlist</i> package actually does the job, but it doesn’t work -here, because it makes a different-named list, while the name -“<code>thebibliography</code>” is built into LaTeX and -BibTeX. Therefore, we need to -<a href="FAQ-patch.html">patch the underlying macro</a>: -<blockquote> -<pre> -\let\oldbibliography\thebibliography -\renewcommand{\thebibliography}[1]{% - \oldbibliography{#1}% - \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}% -} -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -The <i>savetrees</i> package performs such a patch, among a -plethora of space-saving measures: you can, in principle, suppress all -its other actions, and have it provide you a compressed bibliography -<em>only</em>. -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>compactbib.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/compactbib/compactbib.sty">macros/latex/contrib/compactbib/compactbib.sty</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/compactbib.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>mdwlist.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mdwlist.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>natbib.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/natbib.zip">macros/latex/contrib/natbib</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/natbib.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>savetrees.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees.zip">macros/latex/contrib/savetrees</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/savetrees.html">catalogue entry</a> -</dl> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=compactbib">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=compactbib</a> -</body> |