Re: Bibliographic styling

Norman Tovey-Walsh <[email protected]> Sat, 23 May 2020 12:42:48 +0100
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Richard Hamilton <[email protected]> writes:
> I’m thinking of taking on the task of creating a docbook
> customization, similar to the iso690 customization, to process
> bibliographic information in the Chicago Manual of Style format.
>
> Before I dive in head first, I thought I’d check with the group to see
> if anyone has already done that.

I wonder if it would be possible to describe the format in some
declarative way and either derive the stylesheet from that or interpret
it?

I looked briefly at doing that with BibTeX once, but that seemed a
little too challenging for the amount of free time that I have (which is
generally measured in negative numbers).

> To streamline the markup of inline references to bibliographic
> entries, I wonder whether it would stretch the standard too far to
> interpret a linkend in a citetitle as pointing to a bibliographic
> reference and process it as though it were a biblioref immediately
> following the citetitle. So, for example,
>
> <citetitlef pubwork=“book” linkend=“ref.stayton2007”>DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide</citetitle>
>
> would be interpreted as equivalent to <citetitle
> pubwork=“book”>DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide</citetitle><biblioref
> linkend=“ref.stayton2007”/>

That doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. What I tend to do myself, however,
is just the following:

<biblioref linkend="ref.stayton2007"/>

Which I then render inline as the title from the bibliography entry with
whatever styling seems appropriate. Saves me from having to type the
titles each time.

> But, to take it a step further, how about interpreting <citetitle
> pubwork=“book” linkend=“ref.stayton2007”/> the same way, but pulling
> the title from the referenced biblioentry/bibliomixed element when the
> citetitle element is empty.
>
> Any thoughts?

That’s what biblioref is for? :-)

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                                          norm

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