Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
Ahem, just to be clear, I mean *locally.* E.g. I don't see why the
global configuration of a style says the citation should be (Doe,
1999), and we have to allow users to be able to have some citations be
(Doe:1999), *and* to remain live and updateable.
However, IF a user wants some very fancy formatting (like 1999; Doe),
here is a nice way to allow this without breaking to much everything else:
have a field 'caption' where the *full text is stored*, the way it
should be displayed;
- if the user wants to update this entry, he should be able to select to
overwrite it with the default new entry, and then manually perform the
customization; the modified text gets stored as a caption, again
- while this needs rewriting the caption, it has 3 main advantages:
-- it is still linked to the bibliography (so that OOo can show IF any
change has occured)
-- it does NOT need dozens of flags and other weird options
-- virtually every format can be easily coded using this method
- IF the base entry has changed, OOo Writer could mark this caption, so
the user can check IF he has to manually change the caption (and
eventually import the changed bibliographic entry as described previously)
Just my thoughts.
Leonard Mada
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