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eoa
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Beamer references display

Post by eoa »

Apologies if the MWE below is too long.

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{beamerthemesplit}
\begin{document}
\frame
{
\cite[p.290]{HorJoh}
}
\begin{thebibliography}{10}
\bibitem{HorJoh}[HorJoh]
Horn, R. A. and Johnson, C. R
\newblock Matrix Analysis
\newblock Cambridge University Press, U.S.A., 1985.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
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What I want to know is: Is there any way to display the name given to the reference in the citation ([HorJoh] in this case) instead of the hyper-linker number (1 in this case)? This seems to be a beamer problem; When I created an article, the name displayed as [HorJoh]. I always thought that in \bibitem{key}[label], label would be displayed when {key} was cited with \cite{key}

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Post by localghost »

The devil is in the details. In this case it's the order of the optional and the mandatory argument in your bibliography item.

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{beamerthemesplit}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\cite[p.290]{HorJoh}
\end{frame}
\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem[HorJoh]{HorJoh} Horn, R. A. and Johnson, C. R
\newblock Matrix Analysis
\newblock Cambridge University Press, U.S.A., 1985.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
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The label for the \bibitem command must be given first before the citation key.


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Re: Beamer references display

Post by eoa »

Thanks for that. I knew it would be something small like that, but eh, didn't think that would matter (since it worked when for the article documentclass). Thanks again.
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eoa wrote:[…] I knew it would be something small like that, but eh, didn't think that would matter (since it worked when for the article documentclass). […]
It doesn't work either with the article class.
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Post by eoa »

As it turns out, you are correct. It seems I was mistaken: looking at my .tex file with the article class, I see I did have bibitems as

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\bibitem[label]{cite_key}
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Apologies for any inconvience/cluttering of the forums caused. :oops:
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Post by localghost »

Nevermind. Overlooking some small details can happen very easy.
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