> > 1) According to Doe, "X, Y, Z" (1999:23; see also 2000).
This situation also applies to to footnote citations which I have used. "34. Carney holds the view that there was a strong influence of Classical epic on the written Irish tales in “The History of Early Irish Literature: The State of Research”, 128. " The Kate Turabian 'A Manual for writers of term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (6th edition). A Summary of the Chicago Manual of Style, allows for this form, see section 8.149. This form has several issues to consider. I take it that "X, Y, Z" is any free text describing Doe's argument. If it is 'free text' that is normal text, it can be any length, any number of pages. There could be other citations in the text, even of the same type, so we would have to support nested cations. This may or many not be a problem. However if the intervening text is longer that a few lines, it probably would be better to to repeat the author's name otherwise the reader might be left uncertain who the final "1999:23" refers to. Especially if other names have been mentioned. (My wife's suggestion would be to limit the intervening text to one sentence. In that case the end part of the citation would be placed before the first full stop.) In any case the intervening text should probably not include paragraphs. Perhaps some of the Style Guides has some more guidance ? We would have to have some way of assisting the editing of these citations. The example I have in mind is that of editing mathematical expressions in spread sheets. When you select one bracket it's associated bracket is also highlighted. In the case of "According to Doe, "X, Y, Z" (1999:23; see also 2000)." When the cursor is over the first part of the citation 'Doe' you we could have a context menu option 'Jump to end of Citation" which would place you at the "(1999:23; see also 2000)" part. Another issue: when you select "Doe" and press the delete key does "X, Y, Z" get deleted as well as the "(1999:23; see also 2000)" bit? Perhaps an option would be to treat the displaced "Doe" as a cross-reference field representing the Author of citation Doe,1999:23. Thus changing the citation will change the name. The cross-reference would have to protected in some way as if it was deleted you would left with a citation (1999:23) with no author name shown in the text. Or fix it auto-magically if the cross-reference name is deleted the citation reverts to (Doe,1999:23). Thinking about this - cross-references to the fields in citations could be useful. The User could have full access to all the data in the citations, including abstracts etc. to insert in the text. A trivial example - Doe's reference work (1999), has brilliant illustrations and his publisher, Macmillan Press, are to be congratulated. "Macmillan Press" could be a cross-reference field to the (Doe,1999) citation Publisher field. -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
