Document Classes ⇒ natbib | Set Option(s) after Package is loaded

[beenakker]

The natbib release notes say:
"It is possible to change the merge, sort, and compress options even after the package loads, and even after \begin{document}."
How do I do this?

I need this possibility, because I'm using revtex, which loads natbib without giving the user the chance to load options.

[localghost]

The natbib manual suggests to use the \setcitestyle command (see Section 5). You can also try to give desired options globally to the document class. It might pass them to the package. If this doesn't work, you will get corresponding warnings in the log file and you will have to use the suggested command.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[beenakker]

@Thorsten - thank you for the quick response; unfortunately, the options that can be set with \setcitestyle do not include "compress" (only formatting options work); and passing arguments globally when calling revtex has no effect; calling natbib explicitly gives an error message about calling a package already loaded by the documentclass.

so I'm stuck.