Re: Some bugs/feature propositions

On Friday 18 June 2004 13:23, Grze=B6 Andruszkiewicz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have used jurabib for some time to write my masters thesis. I found it
> very usefull, but I had some problems as well. I was using it together
> with bibtopic package.
>
> 1) When using jurabib with bibtopic, \citetitle{..} and
> \footcitetitle{..} doesn't work. It places "Ibidem" instead of short
> author/short title.
> 2) In Poland some authors must use polish abbreviations. I could easily
> change "Ibidem", but I had problems with "et.al", "Vol.", "Nr."
What was the problem? You should make a .ldf file for Polish and fill in th=
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fields there.
> 3) When cited an internet page, I was told to cite the title of the page
> (eg. "Internet page of organization X") together with url and urldate.
> It would be easier when a global switch was added, to always make full
> citations for @WWW bibentry types.
> 4) Sometimes it was not possible to find all the data for bibentries,
> eg. I had some examples without year. It would be confortable if jurabib
> could check it and not write comma and period one after another (comma
> should go before the year).
Should work. I have no problems with that any more.
> 5) I had problems when citing articles, as  in Poland we have different
> norms. A proper citation (according to my supervisor) should look like:
> author, title, journal_title year, vol. X, nr Y.
> I couldn't change the names of "Vol.", "Nr.", and the order of the fields=
.
Order of the fields is difficult, the rest should work.
> 6) When citing books, I had to use "Editor_address" field instead of
> "editor" - I just put the address in the editor field, but this makes
> the *.bib file language specific, which is not good (as I usually write
> some english publications on the same topic as well).
I don't see what you mean by that.
>
> Thank you for your attention. Is the package being developed, or I am on
> my own?
Development is rather quiet, but I think Jens Berger is still working on it=
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now and then.
Best,

Maarten Wisse
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Dr. Maarten Wisse
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow
Ecumenical Institute
Faculty of Theology
University of Heidelberg

Editor of
Ars Disputandi
The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion
http://www.ArsDisputandi.org
Hosted by Utrecht University Library
http://www.igitur.uu.nl


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