It seems we're (finally!) about wrapped up with the ODF metadata work
on which we'll base the new citation support. To make a long story
short, we've realized that likely the easiest way to proceed with the
details of formatting is that Writer has an API which knows how to
track citations, but then requests certain pre-formatted strings as
needed.
David had outlined his ideas on this earlier here:
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/
Bibliographic_API_Enhancements#constants_group_BibliographyDataField>
I'm wondering about a simpler approach still. I am thinking of
properties like just citation, shortCitation and bibliographicEntry. In
that scheme, if we have a citation like (Doe, 1999, 2000; see also
Smith, 1993):
- ref 1 and 3 are the default citation string
- ref 2 is the short form
- ref 3 would also be a "see also" type, and so grouped and prefixed
in standard ways that could be overridden
So the RDF in package would look like:
<b:Book rdf:about="urn:isbn:34982376">
<b:citation>Doe, 1999</b:citation>
<b:shortCitaton>1999</b:shortCitaiton>
...
</b:Book>
Any thoughts? Could things be as simple as I am thinking?
Bruce
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