Hello, I'm working on a simple script which would allow to add bibliography to abw documents in a way similar to BibTex (actually, using BibTex databases). Right now it works very nicely -- you got styles, you can easily add your own styles, you feed the abw document through the parser and get a nicely formatted bibliography in the style of your choice.
There is, however, one catch: once you've got the document you cannot reformat it in an other style, because the labels disappeared and my script has no way of knowing where the bibliography references were. I would need a special, custom tag, something like this: <bibentry style="something" key="weiner2000"> <c prop="font-weight:bold">Weiner</c>, 2000 </bibentry> <bibliography> <c prop="font-weight:bold">Weiner</c>, 2000. <c prop="font-style:italic">Transcription in Mycoplasma pneumoniae.</c> Nucleic Acids Res. 28:4488-96. </c> </bibliography> Some custom tag I could put in the document, ignored by Abiword (which is does), but *preserved by Abiword* when I save the document (which it does not). Is there any existing mechanism which would work like that? Could I use any of the existing, defined tags for my purpose? I know, something like that should be coded as a plugin, but I am a full-time scientist and there is a huge time-consumption difference between writing a simple, yet useful perl script (which I did with a couple of hours investement, and the results are already functional) and coding a plugin. j. ----)-\//-///-----------------------------------January-Weiner-3------- A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it [Jacques Monod] ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
