Alan L Tyree <alanty...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
In one sense it would be "nicer" and more writer-friendly if the links went the other direction; that is, when you refer to a case within the manuscript, you would always tag it in a way that allows it to be automatically labelled with the section in which it occurs, and automatically placed into the index of cases for you. That's a work-saving ideal that I don't actually know how to achieve. (Further idealistic ramblings: if for example you were to add a new section between current sections 6 and 7, it would be nice for the labels in sections 7 through the end to update themselves "wholesale" without your needing to change each label individually.) -- David R
