[tex-live] [OS X TeX] cite package broken?

[Ralph Martin]

On 22 Apr 2009, at 5:22:39PM, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> did it actually _do_ anything, though?  cite.sty is for sorting and
> compressing numeric citations, one wouldn't expect it to achieve much
> with an alpha bst style.

Very strange, then, why the conference template uses the cite package...

> does it still fail if you load cite.sty as
>
>  \usepackage[nosort]{cite}

Yes.

> where's the canonical source for eg-alpha?  i found a copy in a
> repository at cornell, but the canonical source would be good to know.

The canonical place for Computer Graphics Forum, Eurographics leading  
publication, is

http://www.eg.org/EG/Publications/guidelines/content/eg-alpha.zip

but that file is dated 2006, so I don't think it is any change to this  
that is messing things up.

Best wishes

Ralph
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