Hmm, are there other people also getting mail from this list half a day
late? That is to say: sorry, I didn't mean to comment on what had
already been extensively discussed...

Florian




On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:28:13AM +0000, Florian Schlichting wrote:
> > >Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> > >>What should the user experience be that gets you the following output:
> > >>
> > >>1) According to Doe, "X, Y, Z" (1999:23; see also 2000).
> > >
> > >"see also" is not directly supported by BibTeX, so I would probably 
> > >have to
> > >write it by hand into "Text after" field.
> > 
> > Right, but since we're not talking about BibTeX, we *can* support it in 
> > OOo.  That means it can be a parameter that has a GUI analog.
> 
> No, I think we should stick to a "Text before" and "Text after" field
> PER SELECTED CITATION KEY (in the GUI) and not standardize the (myriad)
> ways in which to refer to and comment on citations (or who is
> misunderstanding whom now?)
> 
> 
> > How does the system know to leave off the author name(s) on the 
> > reference?
> 
> I may be wrong (I don't have the PNG here right now), but wasn't there
> one selector to choose a particular natbib-like variant of author-date
> citation formatting (\citet, \citep, \citeauthor, ...) - which would
> also mean that the author name in the examples you gave could be either
> ordinary text or a separate citation
> 
> I don't really like the way endnote does this, that you have to do two
> separate steps (first insert, then edit the citation) to perform this
> very basic formatting - it should all be in the same initial window.
> Also, endnote does apparently not offer the possibility to leave off
> brackets entirely (for example if you're already inside brackets,
> writing more extensive text)
> 
> just my thoughts,
> Florian
> 
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