Sort and compress numerical citations

As mentioned in Latex hyperref and cite packages, packages cite and natbib are used to sort numerical citations. The usage of cite is

\usepackage{cite}

It is quite simple because you don't need to do anything more. [21,18,22,23] will be automatically sorted and compressed as [18, 21-23].

To get the same results, options needed to be provided using natbib:

\usepackage[options]{natbib}

Options can be sort&compress or compress. The former one sorts and compresses the citations and the latter one compresses the citations only. Because of the compatible issue, natbib is recommended.

Latex hyperref and cite packages

There is a conflict between cite package and hyperref package. Hyperref cannot generate hyper links from the citations generated by cite. Cite package is used to sort and compress numerical citations. Another package natbib can be used alternatively to solve this compatibility issue.

However, when one of the options sort&compress or compress in the \usepackage[]{natbib} command is used, the options backref and pagebackref of hyperref encounter a problem. The compressed references don’t have back hyper links. For example, with [39-43], the reference 40 doesn’t have back reference hyper links. To solve this issue, simply discard compress option and reuse it in the final copy.

One more, cite and natbib cannot stay together ;P.

Chinese version:

Latex 宏包: hyperref 和 cite

http://time360.blogspot.com/2007/09/latex-hyperref-cite.html

gswin32c.exe crashes with EPS figures

What is the difference between these two figures? One is green and the other is stripy. After inserting it to a Latex document and running DVI-->PS, you will know another distinction. The striped figure makes gswin32c.exe crash while the first doesn't.

Yesterday, I met this problem. Soon after the problem occurred, I was aware of that my figures caused the problem. Then I tried to use different ways to get the EPS figures. However, they all didn't work. I had no idea what happened. Finally, I tried to fill the image using a pure colour. Luckily enough, it worked.