I did something similar for my thesis, and it worked fine for me.... but that's still a small sample.
I started with a table similar to what you have set up, but also found it kind of limiting. So I migrated to using a separate FM file for each work (and something about the work in the file name, for easy ID). On the first page of the file, I used uniquely named paragraph tags for each part of the citation: Title, Author, Publisher, and so on. Each one became a simple cross ref that was unique and was easier format for different purposes, for either footnotes or the bibliography, depending on how you order the series of cross-refs. Everything under that was text, which I used for my own notes, some of which I used in the thesis and most of which just stayed hidden. It would be pretty easy to convert your tabular format to a file based, but I'm Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Rob <rkfranklin at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing my PhD thesis using FrameMaker 7. I am wondering if > anyone has used a really good system for making bibliographies. I > have found a couple of solutions such as fbib and citemaker, and I > might eventually use one of them, but for now I am trying to use a > simpler method because I am running Frame through CrossOver on my > Macbook Pro, and additionally, I would like to avoid reentering all of > my bibliographic info into BibTeX format if possible. > > I currently have all of my bibliography entries in a table in the > following format: > > [Abc03] Abc, Xyz, "A Title," A Journal, vol. 335, pp. 427-47, 2003. > > I am using a table so that the tag part ([Abc03] in the example) is in > the first column of the table and can cross referenced. In the text I > would like to cite a single entry like this: [Abc03], and multiple > entries like this: [Abc03, Xyz90, Xyz02]. However, I can only figure > out how to generate cross references in one of these two formats: > [[Abc03], [Xyz90], [Xyz02]] or [Abc03], [Xyz90], [Xyz02], and neither > of these is acceptable. The problem is that I can't figure out how to > grab the "Abc03" part of the tag without grabbing the [ ] brackets > too. Is there any way to hide the [ ] backets in the cross reference > using conditional text or perhaps by putting the Abc03 part into some > type of marker or variable? If not, does anyone have a suggestion for > a better way to generate a bibliography? Also, if anyone has had good > experiences with either fbib or citemaker and FrameMaker 7 that would > be helpful too as using one of them might solve my problem too. > > Thanks, > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >