On Jan 16, 2005, at 6:45 PM, David N. Wilson wrote:
1) According to Doe, "X, Y, Z" (1999:23; see also 2000).
This situation also applies to to footnote citations which I have used.
Right.
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.
In this case, I am assuming it's a few words. In my experience, a citation generally only leaves off the author name if the author is listed within the same sentence.
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.
First point is that it's not clear that "Doe" here must be coded as a citation per se. It could just be free text without explicit coding. This is sort of design decisions that we need to carefully consider though.
But how are you thinking about the details above? "X, Y, Z" becomes an inline caption?
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?
That depends on above.
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.
I guess I'd vote for keeping things as simple as possible. If we can keep it simple and add useful new functionality, then great.
Bruce
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