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On 13 Apr 2007, at 02:37, James Lockie wrote:
Sean Walton wrote:
I have changed my bib database, and I want to reflect the changes
in my document. How do I do it without re-adding all the citations?
-Sean Walton
PS. This is for my PhD qualifiers which is due in a couple days.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_FAQ
Changes to the bibliographic database are not updated in the
document.
This issue is often reported as a bug <http://www.openoffice.org/
issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44189>. However it is design limitation of
the current bibliographic facilities, so it is not a bug or defect.
Each time you insert a bibliographic entry into a document the
bibliographic data (Author name, date publisher etc.) is copied
from the database into the bibliographic entry fields. This is the
case even for multiple entries of the same citation. No connection
is maintained between the citation data in the document and the
original database references or between citations to the same
reference, in the same document. For a workaround to this issue see
- How do I correct the citations in my document <http://
wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/
Bibliographic_Hints_and_Tips#How_do_I_correct_the_citations_in_my_docu
ment.3F>. A solution is proposed in our bibliographic project plans
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/
Openoffice_Bibliographic_Project_Announces_Innovative_Plans>.
[edit <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/mwiki/index.php?
title=Bibliographic_FAQ&action=edit§ion=6>]
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/
Bibliographic_Hints_and_Tips#How_do_I_correct_the_citations_in_my_docume
nt.3F
How do I correct the citations in my document?
If you have inserted a citation (Bibliography Entry) may times in a
document and need to correct it. Correcting it in the database is
not enough. The changes are NOT automatically made in the document.
In fact each citation has complete copy of the citation data and
must be correct for each citation. You have several options:
3. If you have too many citations to change in this way then you
can edit the save file. Make a backup of your file. Rename your
xxx.odt file xxx.zip, open the zip archive and extract the
contents.xml file, open that file in a writer. *Very carefully* do
a global find and replace for your corrections. Save the
contents.xml back into the zip archive. Rename xxx.zip xxx.odt.
Hoping you have not destroyed your file, open it and check.
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