https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68123
--- Comment #4 from Owen Genat <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #3) > Given all the information that LibreOffice already has from the bibliography > database, shouldn't it be able to create the short names itself, given > enough hints on what to create them from? (The hints on the format could be > something like (%author %year: %page), or to make it a little nicer there > could be UI to drag-and-drop predefined fields into a text field.) > If we had that, the short name/identifier field wouldn't actually need to > exist. In simple terms, yes. In reality it is more complex. I agree that the basic citation form (short name) should be dispensed with in favour of a simple unique identifier, such as an incrementing integer. The short name field is (currently) the form of the in-text citation. Citation form is set according to a predefined style (e.g., APA, Chicago, Turabian, Vancouver, etc.) as indicated in (2) in the description. The form for each citation is then dependent on various subsidiary factors (according to style manual), such as: (a) the title/date fields being populated; (b) whether the citation is the first or subsequent in the text; (c) the number of authors; just to name a few. The initial implementation would probably need to be a fairly simple improvement (as you suggest) rather than going to this level of support. > 2. I am not sure I understand -- do you mean a web database? This is the example I was referring to: http://gcflearnfree.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/style.png?w=610 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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