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[Amit Dubey <address@hidden>]

        Thanks Joris,

        It would be really helpful if you could fix this in the next
version.  I will then submit citep and citet macros to those who
have asked for them.

        Thanks again,
        -Amit

> 
> 
> Hi Amit,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Amit Dubey wrote:
> >     I am using an external scheme script, and I need to make sure that
> > a <reference|...> command is evaluated before the result is sent as
> > an argument.  Alternatively, I would like to execute the <reference|...>
> > from the scheme script itself.
> >
> >     E.g. what I have is:
> >
> > <assign|myfunc|<macro|x|<extern|scheme-func|<reference|<arg|x>>>>>
> >
> >     And I'd like "scheme-func" to receive the result of "reference"
> > rather than the tree <reference|...>
> 
> The tree "reference" *is* evaluated, but to itself...
> In general, if you yant to force evaluation,
> you may use the "quasi" and "unquote" primitives.
> 
> This is actually a bug (well, a small one, since this was not
> needed by anyone until recently): the "reference" primitive is
> only evaluated by the typesetter, not by the macro language.
> I probably did that so, because the typesetter also adds
> a hyperlink. I will correct this bug as soon as possible.
> Please remind if I forget to do so for the next version.
> 
> Best wishes, Joris
> 
>