Re: [Refdb-users] cited page numbers?

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

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 07:19  AM, Michael Below wrote:

>> To be clear, what I am saying above refers to a new "quote" reference
>> type that currently exists in bibx.  This would allow you to actually
>> store excerpts (and hopefully annotations) and to have the specific
>> page number(s) for the quote tied to it.
>
> Ah, okay, I thought you were talking about citations in general.
> But also for these references to excerpts, it might be helpful to be
> able to refer to a single spot inside the quote.

Are you saying to be able to use (and thus cite) only a section of a 
multi-page quote?  Agreed.  I suggested we'd need a way to represent a 
page break, so that the data was there to make adjustments in this kind 
of circumstance.  So perhaps you'd have something like:

<excerpt start-page="21" end-page="23">A very long excerpt ... <pb/> 
... that spans multiples pages.</excerpt>

If you were using a GUI app that was based on this model, and you, say, 
copied-and-pasted just the last portion ("that spans..."), the app 
would adjust accordingly and just insert a citation with a cited page 
of "23."

Yes, I know; it's ambitious.  But, it's one useful thing that no 
reference manager that I know of has bothered to try yet.

Bruce