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

[Peter Fleck <peterfleck@gmail.com>]

Thanks Thomas. This is the way to go I think.

I see the comment in the xref.xsl file

<!-- To be done: add support for begin, end, and units attributes -->

<xsl:template match="d:biblioref" name="biblioref">

I'll open an issue on Github.

Peter

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 08:58, Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de> wrote:

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>).


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GruÃ/Regards,
  Thomas Schraitle

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