I have to do the following with a Writed document:

- The author of an article has a biblio database, in some format. 
  The format is known, the database can be accessed easily, no 
  problem with that.
  
- When she writes the article she wants to put only a short
  reference to an article in the text. The reference is her 
  own creation, but it is a unique key for the database.
  
- When she is ready, she wants a piece of code to run through the
  article and replace the references with data extracted from the
  database in a format specified by her and then generate a
  bibliography at the end of the document, in the format specified 
  by her.
  
- Preferably the last step is reversible or is done in such a way 
  that the original reference is not lost.

Basically, she wants to write the text

   blah blah blah (see MYREF28) blah blah

(or actually insert a field containing MYREF28) and after the 
processing step the (visible) text is changed to

   blah blah blah (see SomeName,93) blah blah

and at the end of the documents an automatically generated entry

   SomeName et al, Great Famous Paper 1993 issue 4 pp beg-end 

with each field have its font, modifiers and whatnot specified
as per the requirements of the particular journal. Using MYREF28
as key, all info can be extracted from the database, of course.

With regards to the above I have 2 questions:

1) Can you do that with OO's BASIC? Can you actually generate text
   that behaves as a field by using BASIC?

2) If yes, is there some docs on OO's Basic somewhere on the 'Net
   with enough info to write such a beast?
   
Thanks,

Zoltan

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