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In article <TSC9A.92Apr13172147@holmes.acc.virginia.edu> tsc9a@holmes.acc.virginia.edu (Thomas S. Cook) writes:
>I am working on my undergraduate thesis at UVA and decided to use
>Latex to format my documents.  Little did I know how much time I would
>waste trying to get one little thing to work.
>I have spent many hours on this problem and have had no success.
>
>I would like to have my \cite[:9]{eam:1} command print the following
>
>[16:9] where 16 is the bibliography reference number and 9 is the page
>number for the information cited.
>
>What Latex or Tex does is the following
>
>[16, :9]
>
>I tried using \renewcommand to change the \@cite definition but nothing
>worked. Please help.
>
>****************TOM COOK TSC9A@HOLMES.ACC.VIRGINIA.EDU**********************
>************************UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA******************************

Use 

\def\@cite#1#2{[{#1\if@tempswa #2\fi}]}

Ronald Kappert
e-mail: R.Kappert@urc.kun.nl
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