Well, the way I understand crossref is that it is meant for items I want to cite separately but which depend on a parent item. For me this means that I do not use it for chapters, unless these are articles written by different authors and put together in one single volume/book. The parent item would be "book", the single articles "incollection". If however I happen to have several pdf files all being chapters from one book written by the same author then I would not recur to crossref but rather combine the chapter pdf files to one single file and link it to the "book" item or (esp. with the new file management) throw all files on the "book". Note: crossref is not primarily meant for file handling but for having consistent child items which get their dependent fields from the parent item they are linked to.
Alex Am 03.01.2008 um 10:07 schrieb Niels Kobschaetzki: > Hi! > > I don't know if it's a question better asked on a LaTeX-list or here > and if it's OT or not but I don't know really where to ask and > therefore I ask here and set it off-topic. > > What's the right way to cross-reference? And what's the actual > usage pattern? > > E.g. I have here several pdfs with chapters from within one book. Do I > create now one item (book) with several local files (is that somehow > possible?) or do I create one book-item and several inbook-items for > each chapter and cross-reference them. When I the latter one is the > better solution, do I put the crossref-field into the inbook-items or > several crossref-fields into the book-item? > > When would I else use a crossref-item except of such a situation? > > Niels > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > ============================================= please avoid sending me word attachements; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for details and background ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
