I think what I have written in Applescript thus far is similar in
concept to this CiteinPages tool, although I built my own relatively
crude GUI.
Another question that I had is whether "\cite {}" fields in LaTex/
BibTex can include information in addition to the citekey. One of the
tricky parts of automating legal citation is that often there is other
text in a given citation in addition to the main citation. For
example, in an article in a legal journal a very simple citation to a
case would look like this:
Hendrick Hudson Central Sch. Dist. v. Rowley, 458 U.S. 176 (1982).
the first bit of text is the name of the case, the "458" is the volume
of the journal ( the "reporter" as the legal field calls them), "U.S."
is the abbreviated name of the journal, and the "176" is the first
page of the journal. The "1982" contained in parentheses is the year
in which the case was decided. That seems to be very simple for the
\cite{} to deal with. The tricky part comes when there is more info.
For example, in the same article, a subsequent citation to the same
case might include more information:
Rowley, 485 U.S. at 186 (quoting Rowley v. Hendrick Hudson Cent. Sch.
Dist., 483 F. Supp. 528, 534 (1980)). The trial court Judge held that
a free, appropriate public education meant “that each handicapped
child be given an opportunity to achieve his full potential
commensurate with the opportunity provided to other children.”
Rowley, 483 F. Supp. at 534.
Here, "Rowley" is the short form of the name of the case, "485" is
the volume of the journal, "U.S." is the abbreviated name of the
journal, and the "at 186" is a reference to the specific page number
to which the author is citing. The parenthetical that follows the
citation, "(quoting..." refers to the fact that the work the author is
citing in fact directly quotes a secondary source. The next sentence
that follows the parenthetical is still part of the citation, and
contains part of the quoted subject matter that is the subject of this
citation. The final piece is a short form citation to the original
source from which the quote was taken. It is this type of complex
citation that makes legal citation so frustrating!
If it were possible to add more information to the \cite{} fields, it
could be possible to label parenthetical information, postnotes and
other references and have a set of rules that formats the contents of
the \cite{} field properly. Is this something that the LaTex/BibTex
system allows?
Hi, without having had only the smallest insight in law practitioner's
citation habits there is one thing that comes to my mind. It's just
one
thing that might possibly be helpful to your efforts: CiteInPages
<http://jhh.med.virginia.edu/main/CiteInPages> is also relying on
AppleScript to achieve goals similar to the ones you are mentioning in
Apple's Pages (which is able at least to export to MS .doc).
Best, Stephan
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