Re: [Refdb-users] cited page numbers?

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 03:26 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Now this is a serious threat ;-)

I wasn't trying to sound "threatening"; it's just that important for 
the social sciences and humanities, since we regularly cite specific 
quotations, tied to specific pages.

> This feature is currently not
> supported. I remember previous discussions about the need to
> insert random pieces of text into citations. Once this works it
> would fix this problem too. I thought about using something like a
> formatting string in the citation element that allows RefDB to
> figure out which pieces it has to render literally and which are to be
> replaced by the citation stuff.

Any more specific ideas?  I tend to want to see a "cited-page" 
attribute, along with attributes for maybe something like "pre-text" 
and "post-text."  This would allow a citation like this, which is not 
uncommon:

A citation (for more on this issue, see Jones, 1999: 34).

This style tends to be more common in the numeric citation style.  
Historians, for example, regularly have a few lines of text associated 
with one or more citations.

But this does raise the question of how you deal with multiple 
citations.

Some ConTeXt users came up with a workaround for the lack of this in 
Taco's bib module, which has a special "citedpages" reference style.

Is this feature relatively easy for you to add?  Maybe in the next 
month or two?  :-)

Am starting a book project, which I'd like to do using DocBook and 
RefDB, but alas, I need this stuff to do so.

Bruce