[pmwiki-users] Summarising: Bibliographies

John Rankin john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Tue Sep 12 00:16:14 CDT 2006


On Tuesday, 12 September 2006 7:38 AM, Tom Backer Johnsen <backer at psych.uib.no> wrote:
>christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> To begin, with I would be happy with:
>>>
>>> - One single BibTex file for the site, named in say config.php
>> 
>> Eh... why not a wiki page containing the information?
>
>Sure, if that is possible, yes.  But if it adds complications leave it 
>out for the time being.  On the other hand, my experience with 
>programming (not PhP, but Delphi / Object Pascal / C++) tells me that 
>it is often a good idea to keep in mind what you might want to add to 
>a system, even if you start at a basic level.  That can often save you 
>from having to rewrite the whole thing in order to be able to add 
>features.  Still, rewriting is often a good idea, so, ...
>
>>> - A simple citation command, like (:cite unique-ref-id) as mentioned 
>>> above which would either be rendered in number format, e.g. [11] 
>>> alternatively (controlled as an option) as (Authorlist PubYear), e.g. 
>>> (Cohen, 1968),
>>> - A list of the cited references at the end of the page
>> 
>> Yeah, this sounds like a good starting point - it would solve many of my 
>> needs at least. 
>
>Mine as well.
>
>Tom
>
I have started a summary specification at
http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/index.php?n=Bibliographies.HomePage

but ran out of day...
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JR
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John Rankin







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