Hello everyone. I've tried to use OOo bibliorgaphic functions for almost half of year. I've read some ideas about how it should be, and the future seems be great! But it also seems to be the far future :(
My proposals: - Fields should allow to store formatted text. I don't know how, maybe some variant of html or OOo native xml-based styling. So, if the article about the water has name "H20", then I want "2" be in sub. Bold, Italic, underlined, various font-sizes and other modifiers is unnecessary in my opinion. All the needed formatting can be done in references index (make it bold, italic or whatever you want - by assigning the symbol style. So, the SUMMARY: Biliorgaphy references should allow to store sub and sup, but all other text formatting in unnecessary. - Merging of citations. I've read some proposals about merging of multiple citations, and I haven't understood the problem. I am using the numbered citations Ex: ------ C-C bond-length in nanotube is 0.142 nm [1], and slightly depends on diameter [2]. 1. A. Author1, B. Author2, Phys. Rev. B. 68, 012345 (2004) 2. A. Author1, B. Author2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 34, 054321 (2002) ------ It's ok with that situation. But if I want to insert not only one citations it will look like: --------- Many authors working on this problem [1][2]. 1. C. Author3, D. Author4, Phys. Rev. B. 68, 012374 (2004) 2. E. Author5, F. Author6, Phys. Rev. Lett. 34, 054328 (2002) -------- But the common standard in scientific literature is to merge citations: --------- Many authors working on this problem [1, 2]. 1. C. Author3, D. Author4, Phys. Rev. B. 68, 012374 (2004) 2. E. Author5, F. Author6, Phys. Rev. Lett. 34, 054328 (2002) --------- OR -------- Many authors working on this problem [1-3] 1. C. Author3, D. Author4, Phys. Rev. B. 68, 012374 (2004) 2. E. Author5, F. Author6, Phys. Rev. Lett. 34, 054328 (2002) 3. A. Author1, B. Author2, Phys. Rev. B. 68, 012345 (2004) -------- So, it needs some mechanisms to show in correct format citations in document. -When I try to use MySQL thru ODBC as a biblio db storage backend, there were some difficulties: It was not able to determine and assign correctly some fields in table, but table structure was identical to the default (the structure was copied). I guess there should be some more clear mechanism of determining the fields meanings. -I guess field ABSTRACT is needed. Of course, I can use reserved fields like Custom1, but If I want to create multiuser web-based bibliography database with ability to search in titles and abstracts, and use it's records direct from any OOo in institute network - then field ABSTRACT would be appreciated. -The GUI for inserting citations is too simple. If database is large enough, it's very difficult to find needed record. I guess I can propose more handy GUI for this, but I've never coded it. I can draw it in any format if someone would implement it in the code :) I am not C/C++ programmer, but I know PHP and SQL basics, and also know basic syntax of C. So, If I could help in solving this problems - let me know HOW? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
