On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:32:38 -0500, "Peter Kupfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > John -- > > You may be correct, I haven't used it in a full fledged paper yet, I was > just dinking around with it. From what I did though it seemed sufficient > for simple documentation. Perhaps not though.
Actually it _is_ adequate for simple documentation but not for real heavy duty bibliographic use. If I am setting up a bibliography I want it so that I can use the same input all the time. That is, I may have 1,000s of references and for one paper I may need to format for the Chicago Manual of Style, for another for Nature etc. I should be able to change this formatting at the click of a mouse. OOo does not even let me save a single layout for reuse. It looks okay at first sight but it really appears to have been very competently programmed to meet some specs that really don't reflect what a bib should do. I suspect that whoever wrote the specs had never had to use more than one bibliograhic style and thus did not appreciate the problem. > > Have a nice day, > -- > Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Want to help? http://www.oooauthors.org > For OOo tips: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/ooo_tips_tricks.html > To order OOo: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/distro/ooo_distro.html > > > John Kane wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:53:14 -0500, "Peter Kupfer" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Jean -- > >> > >> Chapter 12 is edited and uploaded in accordance with 2.0.2. > >> > >> <http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/writer/feedback/0212WG-CreatingTablesOfContentsIndexesAndBibilographies_PK_09Jun.odt/download> > >> > >> I had no idea Writer has such a sweet bibliography tool built in. That > >> is something that costs a lot of money normally isn't it? > >> > >> Have a nice day, > > > > Peter, > > Are we talking about the same one that was in 1.9.113 and so forth? If > > so, I would have to say that it is a complete disaster. While, with a > > bit of work you can get it to format just about anything you want, it > > seems to fall short of any reasonable standard for bibliographic > > software. Unless I am missing something there does not seem to be any > > way to create various formatting masks or to even save the ones that you > > create. > > > > And its short name approach is terrible. Once you have created the short > > name you're stuck with it. Unfortunately it is quite possible to need > > to change formats from say (Name, Date) to (Name Date) and OOo won't let > > you do it. Have a look at Bibus or Scholar's Aid for some examples of > > what a bibliographic component should do. > > ----- > > John Kane > > Kingston ON Canada > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (613) 888-2399 > > ----- John Kane Kingston ON Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 888-2399 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free
