Dane: > > As a user, I will be able to enter footnote, endnote, or inline > > citations as I type. When I enter one of these citations, I can > > either select a work from a database I have access to, or I can enter > > the work myself. >
Bruce: > How would you cite a reference unless it was already in the database? > > I suppose I was always assuming you have -- as I think Matthias' GUI > design study awhile back had -- a panel from which you could drag and > drop citations onto the document window. You could easily extend that > model to do useful things like filter your references based on the > document content. Here's what I was envisioning: I'm typing along, I type in some quoted text, and I click on the "Insert" menu and select "Citation". I can either select from a list of recent works, click a button to search a database for the work, or enter a new work. If I enter the new work, I should be able to enter incomplete data. Thus, right at this point, I just want the author's name and year of publication, because that's enough for me to know which work to fill in later. Hopefully, if I realize that this work is in the database after I've done this, I can also replace my custom entry with the authoritative one from the database. At the point of inserting the citation, I also enter the page number(s) of the citation, to be handled by the bibliographic backend as necessary. If the inserting of citations is done via drag-and-drop, then there should be a button to enter a new work. -Dane --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
