Re: [docbook-apps] Merge biblioentry data to citation

[Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de>]

Hi Peter,

Am Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:54:04 +0100
schrieb Peter Fleck <peterfleck@gmail.com>:

> Is there a way to only have a biblioentry once in the bibliography
> and then cite the details multiple times?
> So for example here in
> https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
> 
> Something like this? (Though this doesn't work).
> 
> <para>......<footnote><para><citation linkend="isbn-9780143111641"/>,
> 315-16.</para></footnote>......</para>
> ...
> <para>......<footnote><para><citation linkend="isbn-9780143111641"/>,
> 402.</para></footnote>......</para>

It seems, biblioref would be the appropriate tag for you:

  https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.1/biblioref.html

With biblioref you can add the attributes "begin", "end", and "units"
like this:

  <para>See <biblioref begin="315" end="316" units="pages"
        linkend="isbn-9780143111641"/>.</para>

If you process it with version 1.79.2 of the stylesheets, you will get
this result:

  See [isbn-9780143111641].

It seems, the attributes above are unsupported. I think this is a bug
as I couldn't find any code which uses them. If you want to take them
into account, you need to write a customization layer.

One final note about citation. You can use it to reference multiple
bibliographic entries like this:

  <para> See <citation><biblioref
        linkend="A"/>, <biblioref linkend="B"/></citation>

which renders as:

  See [A, B].

(watch for spaces inside <citation>).


-- 
GruÃ/Regards,
    Thomas Schraitle