G'day,
I am the author of a legal text of about 700 pages. I currently have the
book in LaTeX using the memoir class. A couple of macros define special
indexes for a Table of Cases and a Table of Statutes. I would like to
move the whole thing to Org to make it easier for my editors who can be
easily alarmed by the LaTeX markup.
The LaTeX is overkill since I submit the manuscript to the publisher in
a Word file.
Is there a standard way to get, say, the table of cases? A typical
"case" looks like this:
Howell v Coupland (1874) LR 9 QB 462; (1876) 1 QBD 258
The Table of Cases needs to indicate where in the text the case is
mentioned; reference to section numbers is OK. So, for example, in the
Table of Cases, the above case appears as:
Howell v Coupland (1874) LR 9 QB 462; (1876) 1 QBD 258 [15.16] [15.25]
Presuming there is not a "standard", I have considered the following
procedure:
- maintain a list of cases as I write; I already do this to ensure
consistent citation of cases;
- use links from the list of cases back into the manuscript to
index the places where each case is mentioned in the text.
Does this seem like a reasonable approach, or is there some obviously
better way? I am an extreme novice at elisp but can handle some simple jobs.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Alan
Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan
Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:typh...@iptel.org
