[texhax] Question about the overcite package

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> I'm using the overcite package to get superscripted references.  But
> sometimes within the paper, I want to refer to a reference wihtout it
> being superscript.
>
> For example, in general, I would write, "This agrees with previous
> experiments in bla bla bla," and want that to be followed by a superscript
> number for the reference with the previous experiments.  But every so
> often, I want to say, "This curve is a fit to the data in Ref. x", and I
> don't want the x to be a superscript... Is there a way to do this (other
> than manually)?

Excerpt from cite.sty (loaded by overcite.sty):

% ... \citen can be used by itself
% to give citation numbers without the brackets and other formatting; e.g.,
% "See also ref.~\citen{junk}."

Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe

P.S.  Most well written packages do come with some sort of documentation.