(eplain.info)Formatting citations

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4.3.1 Formatting citations
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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)}}