Re: Archival documents

[email protected] schrieb:
>>The signature format problem could be addressed in two ways:
>>- the signature delimiters could either be kept separately customizable
>>(\bibssepA, \bibssepB and so on)
>>- or instead of storing the individual signature positions, it would be
>>possible to define include one field for the whole signature, something
>>like signature={sig/sig--sig, sig}. This would also allow for different
>>signature formats within one document, for example if you quote from
>>different archives.
> 
> That would be really great! Actually I really have this problem of 
> different ways of citation. And I would prefer the second solution -- 
> whereas the possibility to determine the delimiters globally for a 
> special archive or subarchive would be fine. Note that sometimes there 
> are even different ways of citation for documents from even one archive.

Another way to implement different signature formats would be having 
four fields for the individual signature positions and another field for 
a "callback" command in the bibliography database.  Thus, the .bib file 
entry would contain something like:

@ARCHIVE{foobar,
  sig1 = {a1}, sig2 = {b2}, sig3 = {c3}, sig4 = {d4},
  sigformatfull = {\foo} ...}

where \foo is a 4-ary user-defined command defined in the main document:

\newcommand{\foo}[4]{#1/#2--#3, #4}

If no formatting command is specified, jurabib could fall back to a dot 
or comma notation.

This way, the whole formatting would be completely customizable for 
different signature formats, theoretically on a per-entry basis, while 
still keeping the individual signature positions separate.  The 
advantage is that you can still have the individual positions available 
for manipulations... or grouping ;)  For grouping, some of the 
parameters would have to be optional.

I guess the more suggestions pour in, the more complicated it gets. ;)

Philipp



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