Re: [docbook-apps] improved citation support proposal (RFE 810932)

["Carlos Araya" <carlos at cvc dot edu>]

While this solves one part of the bibliography problem it solves one part of
the problem, without assistance in formating the bibliography itself it
doesn't help my specific problem a while lot. It's a good start but nothing
more than that. Ideally, the stylesheets would know how to format a
bibliography entry so all I'd have to do is enter de data.

Carlos
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Markus Hoenicka" <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>
To: "Carlos Araya" <carlos@cvc.edu>
Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 14:58
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] improved citation support proposal (RFE 810932)


> Hi,
>
> first of all, apologies for the triple-post. I've waited approx 2 days
> before reposting to avoid just this, but now all three posts popped up
> within a day.
>
> I don't know what an APA paper or an MLA paper is supposed to look
> like. Do you have pointers to online examples?
>
> I've written a bibliography software that tries to implement the
> formatting of citations and bibliographies according to the
> specifications of publishers. Currently it uses a few bad hacks to
> achieve the formatting without modifying or extending DocBook. Things
> would of course be way simpler with the proposed changes. In any case,
> there are example documents online which show the same DocBook source
> processed for two different life science journals. This may at least
> give you a hint what we try to simplify. Please have a look at:
>
> http://refdb.sourceforge.net/examples.html
>
> You should also be aware that the proposal does not deal with the
> bibliography part. We're talking about the citations that appear in
> the text and which point to entries in the bibliography.
>
> regards,
> Markus
>
>
> Carlos Araya writes:
>  > Marcus:
>  >
>  > Can you give an example of how would I use this bibliography support
for an
>  > APA style paper? For an MLA paper? I'm trying to understand the
proposal but
>  > I don't think I'm being successful
>  >
>  > Carlos
>
> -- 
> Markus Hoenicka
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