Re: Many authors

[email protected] (Palle Jørgensen) Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:13:19 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.bibulus.devel
Organization Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Torsten Bronger" <[email protected]> writes:

> Halloechen!
>
> Arne Jørgensen <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> [email protected] (Palle Jørgensen) writes:
>>
>>> You're right. I talked with Arne about it. I've seen that it only a
>>> issue of making a proper emacs-mode for the bibulus system.
>>
>> Another issue with authors.
>>
>> Should it be (is it already?) possible to define an author outside the
>> book/article/whatever and then crossref it?
>>
>> If the same author appears in more than one publication it will
>> probably be convenient to define him/her only once.
>
> This is not a good idea in my opinion.  It makes the file hard to
> read, it is very uncommon, and you don't win much.  And, you can use
> entities for it.

I agree. Again it must be a question of making a good (editor/emacs)
mode; i.e. defining the authors in emacs, an calling the names when
needed.

Perhaps we should extend the scope of the developement of bibulus to
include an emacs mode for bibulus.

-- 
Palle Jørgensen, Stud.scient., BSc

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