On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:45 PM, CPHennessy wrote:
The Writer has two possible content types that could be extended to
support the citation element (and other elements generically)
The first is the text field (com.sun.star.text.TextField). A generic
field service could be added to the API of the Writer that would have
a
property that contains a DOM tree. This DOM tree contains the
citation-element. The bibliography creates the DOM tree of those
fields
and inserts them into the text together with a string that contains
the
presentation text.
[snip]
Such fields can only be formatted as a whole. It is not possible to
have
e.g. parts of this presentation printed in bold. This text can not be
spanned over paragraphs. The text cannot be changed manually.
Is this limitation acceptable for the biblio users ?
Unfortunately, no. We need to be able to place full formatted footnotes
in the cite:citation-body element in some cases.
A more general question, though, is whether fields really ought to be
just text strings. It seems to me there could be a general case to be
made for "rich text" capability within text fields, particularly
depending on where we end up with the current metadata + custom
solution discussion at the TC.
Bruce
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