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biblatex is a sophisticated bibliography system for LaTeX users. It has considerably more features than traditional bibtex and supports UTF-8
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reference section #1322

Closed hvoss49 closed 1 year ago

hvoss49 commented 1 year ago

In the documentation I read (p53)

[...] subsection+ Start a reference section at every \subsection and every higher level of sectioning, i.e. \part, \chapter (if available) and \section.

The starred versions of these commands will not start a new reference section.

What is the meaning of the last sentence, because you first wrote that it will start a new reference section??

moewew commented 1 year ago

That sentence refers to things like \section* and \chapter* as opposed to \section and \chapter. The patching we used to use would only affect numbered sectioning commands, so the unnumbered starred commands would not be patched and would not start a new section. Now that we use different patching mechanisms for different classes I'm not sure if we can guarantee that. I don't have time to check that right now, though. (And if it turns out that the behaviour is different for different classes I might just be willing to accept that rather than to figure out how to make everything behave the same. The whole business was really painful last time.)

moewew commented 1 year ago

How about we keep this around until we can actually verify how things currently stand with the starred macros.

hvoss49 commented 1 year ago

I suppose that I understood the meaning, if it was:

The starred versions of these commands (\section* and others) will not start a new reference section.

But maybe it is only a problem of my own, that I thought: commands->biblatex

moewew commented 1 year ago

Hmm. As I said, I would have liked to keep this open until I've had a chance to look at this more closely. Please don't close issues that we explicitly say should be left open even if your issues are resolved. That makes it much easier for us to keep track of the things we need to keep track of.

I've had a quick look now and the intended behaviour at the moment is that both starred and unstarred sectioning commands are patched. So I removed the sentence. I also found a bug in our memoir patch, which I hopefully fixed.