BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ A different type of reference

[darx]

I just started learning LaTeX and I've gotten the standard method of making references to work. However where I'm from, we make references like this:

1. We must point a reference to certain pages in a book/article/etc. This can be either "(45" or (45-47"
2. We also need to write the last name of the author and the year the book was published. It looks like this: "name-of-author:year)"

So all in all, it has to look like this: (PAGES AUTHOR:YEAR). This has to be in the actual text in the report/article/etc. that we're writing. It would kinda look like this:

yada yada yada yada (PAGES AUTHOR:YEAR). Yada yada yada yada

How can I do this? I've searched on google, but I couldn't find anything.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[snowfrog]

Hi,

I haven' tried myself but I think you should be able to do this by declaring new commands. Something like

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\newcommand{\diffref}[1]{#1} 

in the preamble, something like

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@preamble{"\def\diffref#1{}"}

in your *bib file and in your bibTeX reference itself have something like

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\diffref{PAGES AUTHOR:YEAR} 

This needs some playing around with as I doubt it will work as it is but I guess it's a start!

[darx]

Thanks for your help I'll try to develop on the things that you've written.