Re: [Refdb-users] Using user-defined "numbering"/abbrevs in citations for docbook

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi Olivier,

your best bet would be to use the citation key as the custom abbreviation. This
of course may require some thoughts before you add the data, but if a string
composed of the last name and the publication year is sufficient, RefDB should
have done the right thing anyway.

I take from the citestylex documentation that RefDB currently does not allow to
insert the citation key anywhere in the bibliographic output. Apparently no one
asked for this yet, and I haven't thought of it either. Could you please add a
feature request on the RefDB SourceForge project page to remind me?

regards,
Markus

Olivier Berger <oli...@in...> was heard to say:

> Hi
>
> I'd like to have my citations be referenced and listed with something
> like :
>
> ... in [Berger 2006]...
>
> [Berger 2006]   Berger O. "a title" in ...
>
> There's apparently two forms of citations, defined by the citestyle
> used : numbered references, using <REFNUMBER>, and non-numbered...
>
> When generating docbook XML, it seems that only REFNUMBER use will
> produce some <abbrev> DBXML tags. Am I right ?
>
>
> My problem is that I can customize the format for non-numbered with
> INTEXTDEF and REFSTYLEs, but I can't find a way, then to have citations
> look like :
>
> [custom abbrev] authors, title, etc.
>
> where that custom abbrev would be produced out of author names, etc, and
> be placed in an <abbrev> docbook XML tag.
>
> All I can get is just have is the last part : the authors and the rest,
> without any <abbrev> before.

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