On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> TWiMC,
>
> Perhaps some of the issues of the following Zotero thread may also be
> pertinent to the OOo Bib. project (specifically: permitting for the
> selection of and retention of disparate fonts and font sizes within
> citations as well as citation prefixes and suffixes):
>
> http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/907/word-pluginzotero-feature-request-f
>l exible-commentary-in-footnotes-via-flexible-fonts/
>
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> clip.
>
Clip,
As I understand them, the current proposals for the OOo Bib Project
would
allow for the selection of and retention of disparate fonts and font sizes
within citation and citation prefixes and suffixes. Each of the citation
elements author name, title etc, would be in formatted text field - that is a
field that would allow any formatting that a text document could have,
including embedded formulas, graphics etc. and would include font selection
down to the character level.
A difficulty arises when you want to export this highly formatted
bibliographic data or try to integrate with a third-party package like
Zotero. To deal with the complex text formatting Zotero would have support
most of OOo Writer's text formatting functions itself ! which is clearly not
feasible. It could called on OOo services to display and edit the citations,
(and a similar process for MS Word) but then you have the all the problems
with conversion of WP formats and exporting or using your bibliographic
database to a machine with no compatible WP. Zotero would cease being a
standalone package. If Zotero wanted to implement some font and character
formatting it could pass this text to OOo Writer or MS Word in HTML or RTF
formats.
A partial solution to the Zotero OOo Writer integration might be that when the
user inserts a Zotero sourced citation (in a simple text string format) the
user can then do the complex font modifications to the text in Writer, and we
try and make the database update function 'intelligent' enough that in
updating it attempts to maintain the user font/character formatting. Which
could work if the database changes were small spelling corrections, but
changing the word order and spelling of your Greek and Aramaic words might
defeat such an update system and the user would have to do manual
corrections.
regards David
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David N. Wilson
Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic
OpenOffice.org Project
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org
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