duplicate references [#141098]

Is there a way to circumvent duplicate references to the same article? For example, if I have a page with some text

text (...) <bib>key1<bib> (...) some more text (...) <bib>key1<bib>

then the reference that corresponds to key1 is reffered to as [1] the first time and [2] the second time, and also shows up twice in the reference list. Is this normal behavior, and does anybody know how to get both references point to the same item, i.e. both are referred to as [1]?

Comments

Comment #1

leop commented 3 May 2007 at 16:15

<bib>key1<bib>

should of course be

<bib>key1</bib>

Comment #2

rjerome commented 3 May 2007 at 17:12

Regrettably, that is the "normal" although maybe not the desirable behavior.

Are you using the footnote module as well, or just the built in footnote capability?

Ron.

Comment #3

leop commented 3 May 2007 at 17:49

Thanks Ron. I tried the footnote module, but it seems a little strange to refer to an article with a footnote:

According to ¹ a water molecule consists of two hydrogen and one oxygen atoms.

rather than

According to [1] a water molecule consists of two hydrogen and one oxygen atoms.

I think the second style is better, so I'm not using the footnote module. Furthermore, I don't like the [#...] style option, because it creates these fn# numbers and does not draw a line at the bottom of the page.

Comment #4

rjerome commented 3 May 2007 at 18:04

I'll take a look a the code and see if I can't loop through all the text first to build a list of references and then try to make duplicates point to a single reference.

Ron.