On Thu March 2 2006 10:11, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > So if we take this: > > On Mar 1, 2006, at 2:58 AM, Oliver Specht wrote: > > Hi, > > CPHennessy wrote: > > > > This sounds quite interesting, is there already an example to play > > with (even if it is another element)? > > No, there isn't any example yet. > > ... and this (confusing, but the levels are Oliver/CPH/Me/Oliver): > >>>> 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. > > > > You are right. Fields should be more powerful. Also for MS > > interoperability they need to be changed. But this is not a simple > > task. > > What shall we do? CPH is willing (time permitted) to explore coding > this it seems, but it also seems he needs some help at least in the > form of advice and (preferably) example code. > > Is there any consensus at Sun that enhancing fields is a priority?
OK, I now have some code using the DomBuilder (used in XForms) so that I can parse and store the Citation in a DOM. Now *all* I need to do is to properly associate this with a Bibliography text field, and at a minimum to hook the mechanism for the generation of the citation string ( XTextField::getPresentation() ? (not sure exactly how to do that, but .. ) I may be able to do this on the weekend, but no promises :) If any of the biblio people have been able to build OOo then I can give you a patch file to add the very preliminary code I have to your build, CPH --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
