On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> So translating:
>
> locale -- not sure why we need this?
I am not sure either. Locale information is generally needed only if the text
is NOT encoded in unicode. In the case where you have a 8bit character codes
and need the locale to determine the font mapping. I do not think Writer
would be preserving text this any way - text imported / pasted into a Writer
document would be converted into the document wide encoding.
> prefix -- already have
> suffix -- already have
> page -- already have (but richer, because not limited to pages)
>
> And then a second group which is more the flags I was asking about:
>
> suppress-author
> suppress-year
As in - 'In 1905 two fundamental physics papers were published (Heisenberg)
and (Einstein). ?
> suppress-title
Maybe there is some intext style that has a title as well (not that I can say
I have ever seen one).
>
> Am still not really clear when you'd need the last two, but would be
> happy to recommend these. But since here they are flags like this, it
> might be valuable to have these as dedicated attributes, rather than
> simple values of a single attribute (which would not allow one to mix
> the options).
>
> Any options?
Do you need to be able to specify all style attributes like "suppress-author"
as part of the specification you are working on ?
As in -
biblioref-attlist &= attribute meta:resource { xsd:anyURI }, attribute
cite:style { "suppress-author" }
Perhaps you could have something like -
biblioref-attlist &= attribute meta:resource { xsd:anyURI }, attribute
cite:style:suppress { "author, title, ..." }
were the options for cite:style:suppress is the list of fields available.
Otherwise we will be sure of latter coming up with something that has not be
listed in the specification stage.
I was thinking that with footnote citations perhaps a person may want to be
able to suppress any part of the citation. For example if I was discussing
the Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of
Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, held 8-12 April 1994. As I cited each paper I
probably would not want to repeat the full publishing and conference
details -
Tristram, Hildegard L. C. “What is the Purpose of the Táin Bó Cúalnge?” In
Ulidia: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle
of Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, 8-12 April 1994. Edited by J. P. Mallory,
11-21. Belfast: December Publications, 1994.
However having the ability to define a custom citation provides another way of
dealing with this problem without a lot of suppress field switches.
I hope this helps
David
>
> Bruce
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