On Monday 21 November 2005 9:03 am, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > On Nov 20, 2005, at 4:47 PM, David Wilson wrote: > > I have now just realised that this means that not only do users need > > to be > > able to specify the groupings for the bibliography (primary and > > secondary, > > and any others) but that user needs to be able to specify which group > > the > > citation belongs to for each paper! > > Not following here. Can you explain? I have not put this well. I mean not to assign a group at each citation (mention of the work in the document) but for the each work cited in the document. ie. For this document this work is Primary Source (or other group).
> > Sorry Bruce this seems to make a bit more difficult. > > Crap! > OK, but let's see if we can make this as simple as possible. I have > learned through working on citeproc and csl that often one can find > simple solutions to what at first seem like difficult problems. > > On first glance, you are telling me that we must force users to assign > each citation to a group (if they need this sort of formatting at > least), and therefore the internal coding must be able to store this > (it cannot yet in the OD proposal). The group belongs to the Cited work not per citation of the work. So the grouping would be stored with the bibliographic detail file in the save files, not in the citation field inserted in the document. > I know as a user that I'd rather > not have to do that, so perhaps we can figure out some other way. Am > not sure how, mind you! Easy, have a default group. For people who do not need sorting this can be a Default (no heading) group. For most of my History papers 80-90% of the cited works were Secondary (so that would the default for me) Then, either when adding cited works or latter when finishing the paper assign the few Primary sources. > If we can't, then I guess my proposed solution would be similar; we'd > just need to add a group attribute to the citation coding. > > Bruce > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------- 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]
