[Refdb-users] Reference type query

[Markus H. <hoe...@co...>]

Where does the part "pp. 2-5" stem from? Is this a particular section
of the whole reference which is addressed only in this citation? As an
example, the reference would be:

Someone: An investigation of foo with a special focus on
bar. University Press, Princeton 2007.

but in your citation you point out only the pages 2-5 while in another
citation you might talk about other pages? I'm afraid this is
currently beyond the capabilities of RefDB. The available tricks (X, S
and so on) deal only with information that is already in the database,
so merely extending this feature wouldn't help much. What we would
need is a method to specify a page, a list of pages, or a page range
as an attribute of the xref and ptr elements. The question is whether
there are unused attributes available in all supported DTDs that would
allow to implement this feature without extending the DTDs. If nothing
else helps, the linkend (DocBook) and target (TEI) attributes could be
overloaded by adding a page string, but these attributes will get
increasingly difficult to parse with DSSSL or XSL. I'll have to think
about this.

One ugly way to achieve this with the current capabilities could be to
assemble the citation from two in-text citations (authoronly,
yearonly) and manually add parens and the page range. But again, this
is kludgy.

regards,
Markus

Denis Crowdy writes:
 >  
 > Hi,
 > 
 > In the referencing style for my thesis I need to create entries of the
 > kind:
 > 
 > Text blah blah blah (Someone, 2007, pp. 2-5).
 > 
 > Using the current reference types in refdb (X, S and so on) appended to
 > the ID part of the tag I haven't managed to cover this yet.
 > 
 > Any ideas?  Even a pointer to which part of the source I might
 > investigate would help.

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