Re: Re: Re: Re: Footcite formatting

Nicholas Cole wrote:
> On 28 Jan 2006, at 23:43, Peter Flynn wrote:
> 
>> Charles de Miramon wrote:
>>> Thanks for the file. I've done most of the transformations you  
>>> asked but not
>>> all (I must correct my proofs this morning).
>> Thanks very much for the help, Charles.  As you say, the exclusion of
>> the publisher field is a problem.
>>
>> All of which leads me to think that we do badly need a separate  
>> package
>> for Humanities citation. It's so widely variable, with individual
>> professors requiring their PhD students to adhere to private formats,
>> that something which is configurable *without* having to resort to
>> writing BiBTeX code is becoming essential. Jens has done a superb job
>> here adapting jurabib, but it's unfair to expect him to keep modifying
>> jurabib just to please what is (for legal citation users) a peripheral
>> group.
>>
> 
> Except that it is so nearly right for some styles - the "Oxford"  
> style is easy to produce.  Isn't the problem more that no one has  
> implemented "Chicago"?  I'm sure that should be where the effort  
> goes, not to re-implementing the many, many things that jurabib  
> already makes easy and gets right.

I'd go with that, but the current requirement was for no publisher in a 
\footfullcite. Perhaps all we need is a \footmidcite half-way between a 
full and a short citation :-)

///Peter


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