Hi,
I cover converting footnotes to endnotes in my book. See:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Endnotes.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
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From: "Brad Tombaugh" <b...@tombaugh.org>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 6:29 PM
To: "Michael Broschinsky" <mikebroschin...@mail.com>;
<docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [docbook] DocBook for encoding a family history "encyclopedia"
Mike, I am also using DocBook for a family history/genealogy book. I'm
using Book as the document type, with Chapters for each branch of family.
I've created index entries for both people and places, using surname as
the primary, and first and middle name as the secondary. I include years
lived when needed in cases where the name is not unique. For women, I also
include an entry under maiden name, if known. I've done much the same for
places, using the country or state as the primary indexterm, followed by
county and city or township as appropriate.
You can create footnotes for reference information, as described here:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/footnote.html (depending on which
version of DocBook you are using). They can be presented as footnotes or
endnotes according to the stylesheet settings you are using.
You can create a bibliography as well, as described here:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/bibliography.html
I have used formalpara in some places using a person's name as the
paragraph title for emphasis, and often use simplelist entires when
listing facts or children. My book is more genealogy than family history,
so many chapters use nested section elements to indent each generation.
I have taken a look at using TEI, as it is more general purpose than
DocBook, but I'll admit to being rather overwhelmed by its complexity. I
tried converting some of my text into TEI, but struggled with just getting
the basic document structure down, so that I could produce any output. In
the end, I decided to stick with DocBook.
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Brad Tombaugh
mailto:b...@tombaugh.org
http://www.Tombaugh.org
On Mar 16, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Michael Broschinsky
<mikebroschin...@mail.com> wrote:
I have used DocBook for a little while now. I have created a style manual
for our organization as well as a users' guide for a web application.
In my not professional life, I am a family historian. I would like to put
together an encylopedia-like book that would contain person name and
place name entries pertinent to our family.
I would like to have endnotes at the end of each entry as well as
(maybe?) a biliography. I'm not sure of how best to encode this in
DocBook however.
My inclination is a top-level book containing articles for each entry. If
the work becomes extensive enough, I would separate article groups by
part.
How to get endnotes and a bibliography to appear at the end of each
article would be a question for docbook-apps I suppose.
Am I going down a useful path here? Does this seem a reasonable approach?
Thanks,
Mike
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