Re: [Docutils-develop] biblio. fields in latex writer

[Beni C. <cb...@us...>]

gr...@us... wrote on 2003-09-10:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
>
> > Why doesn't the latex writer use ``\author`` and friends, when the
> > info is present in bibliographic fields (I verified that the docinfo
> > transfrom understood my fields correctly)?  It outputs all fields as a
> > table of bold field name: value, (as for any field list) which does
> > improve consistency when you use fields latex doesn't support but it
> > looks bad when I use ``document_class: book`` and the title page
> > contains only a lone title, with the author as a field list on the
> > next page.
>
> you answered it yourself, so what should i do ?
>
> ::
>
>   if docinfo length == 1 and docinfo contains author:
>     use latex docinfo
>   else
>     use docutils docinfo
>
Perhaps (but also include date, latex seems to support only title,
author and date).  Even better IMO would be to somehow abuse Latex to
make all other bibliographic fields parts of the title page.  One idea
is to stuff them all into into the \author{} but I'm not sure what
constructs will work there (e.g. ``\\`` doesn't work, you need
``\and``).  A more robust approach would be to use ``\nopagebreak``
after ``\maketitle``, stuff the other bib. fields into the same page,
and add add ``\pagebreak`` if document_class in 'book', 'report'.
Can anybody share some experience with abusing latex's titlepage,
before I start experimenting (I also need my university's logos at the
top :-()?  A third option is to omit ``\maketitle`` altogether
generating our own titlepage.

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cb...@us...>