On Mar 25, 2006, at 9:09 AM, CPHennessy wrote:
The following two questions about the Citations which you can answer
will help
to make it clearer for me :
1 - currently the idea about citations is that the complete citation
appears
everywhere it is needed (e.g. it could be more than once thru the
document).
This is not exactly the same as the current implementation as they
have the
idea of a master bibligraphic entry (which contains all of the data)
and
"dependent" text fields entries which simply display the bibliographic
information. Is this the expected way the new citation code should
work ?
I'm a little unclear on what you're asking, but let me try to answer
and you can let me know if I'm not getting it.
The current implementation embeds the bibliographic metadata in each
citation (as a series of attributes). So if you include five citations
to a given book, say, you get the same metadata embedded five times.
In the new approach, those five citations each point to the same --
single -- metadata record, which is moved out of the content file into
its own dedicated file.
So visually:
citation <---> bibliographic record <----> bibliography entry
In general, BTW, the pointer that associates citation with metadata
should be a uri. For example, a uri for a book might be
"urn:isbn:34235467".
2 - (is a consequence of the above or make the decision for us) can one
citation be displayed in several ways in the same document at the same
time ?
Do you mean, can different instances of the same citation be rendered
differently within the same document?
If yes the answer is yes and no. In a global sense, no. There is one
citation style for the entire document.
However, there can be local modifications. For example, let's say we
have an author-date citation style, in which a standard (global)
citation is rendered like (Doe, 1999). A local style change might be
where the author is left off, so that you end up with (1999).
Let me know if you need further clarification.
Note: That if one or two of you could help with other OOo work which I
am
committed to, it would make some more time available for me to work on
this
project.
What sort of help are you looking for?
Bruce
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