BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Individual Format for Citations

[Mister_Mitbewohner]

Hi,

I'm new to LaTeX and currently writing my thesis with it, having some trouble creating the correct citation format. For I'm German I need all citations to look like the following.

Sometext sometext sometext [vgl. BH01, S. 23], sometext sometext.

"vgl." means "see literature" and has to be in there in a German thesis.

Currently LaTeX produces square brackets around the citation, without the "vgl." in it.

Sometext sometext sometext [vgl. [BH01, S. 23]], sometext sometext.

I'm using the following preamble and code.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,titlepage,oneside]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[babel,german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}
\bibliography{diplomarbeitlib}
\begin{document}

Some text some text some text [vgl. \cite[S. 23]{BH01}], some text some text.

\end{document}

Is it possible to include the "vgl." in the citation brackets? If so, where do I have to change something? I already found the "alphabetic.bbx" and "alphabetic.cbx" files.

Or, alternatively, go without any citation brackets? By using the latter I could type the brackets by hand where I need them to be.

Thanks so much for any idea!


Regards,
Mr. Mitbewohner