[Docutils-develop] Re: [Docutils-users] Latex docinfo and Bibliographic fields

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

Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Beni Cherniavsky apparently wrote:
> 
>>>There is a lot of information that
>>>is associate to the Author more than it is general to the document, so
>>>maybe there should be a way to associate the various fields somehow.
> 
>>Probably but I can't think of a convenient syntax.  Alternating
>>author/contact/organization/address fields will do for now.
> 
> And possibly 'position'?
> 
No technical problem to add it.  The one thing that bother me is that it's not 
an `officially defined field`__.  It works, of course, as any "unregistered" 
field - but I'm not sure about adding special handling to a field without 
making it official.

This gives another example of why it would be god to attach fields to authors.

What about the following syntax:

:Author: Foo Fred

     :Organization: Food Foomatics & Friends
     :Contact: fo...@fo...

Which parses (before the docinfo transform) as:

     <field_list>
         <field>
             <field_name>
                 Author
             <field_body>
                 <paragraph>
                     Foo Fred
                 <field_list>
                     <field>
                         <field_name>
                             Organization
                         <field_body>
                             <paragraph>
                                 Food Foomatics & Friends
                     <field>
                         <field_name>
                             Contact
                         <field_body>
                             <paragraph>
                                 <reference refuri="mailto:fo...@fo...">
                                     fo...@fo...


I propose that this should give:

     <docinfo>
         <author>
             Foo Fred
             <organization>
                 Food Foomatics & Friends
             <contact>
                 <reference refuri="mailto:fo...@fo...">
                     fo...@fo...

That is, <author> elements will be allowed to contain other bibliographic 
elements.

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cb...@us...>, who can only read email on weekends.