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[Bibulus-dev] Re: Splitting up IN... entries
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Arne Jørgensen |
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[Bibulus-dev] Re: Splitting up IN... entries |
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Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:04:32 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Thomas M. Widmann) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've got an idea: Is there any reason to define the article and the
> journal together, e.g.:
>
> <article id="sampling" xml:lang="en">
> <author>
> <name nametype="familylast">
> <given>Jan</given>
> <family>Rijkhoff</family>
> </name>
> <name nametype="familylast">
> <given>Dik</given>
> <family>Bakker</family>
> </name>
> </author>
> <title>Language Sampling</title>
> <journal>Linguistic Typology</journal>
> <volume>2</volume>
> <number>3</number>
> <pages>263--314</pages>
> <year>1998</year>
> </article>
>
> instead of:
>
> <article id="sampling" xml:lang="en">
> <crossref id='sampling-PART2'/>
> <author>
> <name nametype="familylast">
> <given>Jan</given>
> <family>Rijkhoff</family>
> </name>
> <name nametype="familylast">
> <given>Dik</given>
> <family>Bakker</family>
> </name>
> </author>
> <title>Language Sampling</title>
> <pages>263--314</pages>
> </article>
>
> <magazine id="sampling-PART2" xml:lang="en">
> <journal>Linguistic Typology</journal>
> <volume>2</volume>
> <number>3</number>
> <year>1998</year>
> </magazine>
>
> The same applies to InBook -> Book, InCollection -> Book and
> InProceedings -> Proceedings.
Cross referencing seems like a cleaner and better solutions. IMHO.
> Currently, both are possible, but it makes the DTD rather complicated.
> Furthermore, BibTeX will move a crossref'ed entry into the
> crossref'ing entry if it is crossref'ed only once (actually defined by
> the -min-crossrefs command line option to BibTeX), but AFAIK this
> breaks if some entries are defined with crossrefs while other entries
> are not.
>
> So my question is: Is there any need for allowing both (apart from
> convenience when inputting the entry)?
Doing things the right way is a good restriction ;-)
Skål
/arne
--
stud. scient. Arne Jørgensen
DK-TUG / Danish TeX Users Group
<http://www.tug.dk/>