[pmwiki-users] Bibliographies
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue Sep 12 20:52:24 CDT 2006
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:20:17PM +1200, John Rankin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 September 2006 5:59 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:53:30AM +0200, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> >> As an aside, maybe what we really want isn't (:bibliography:), but
> >> something like (:bibliography-for-pages :) that accepts any parameters
> >> that (:pagelist:) does, and uses these to find the pages that should be
> >> included in the bibliography.
> >
> >Somehow I think it ought to be
> >
> > (:pagelist fmt=bibliography ... :)
> >
> >which lets you build a bibliography based on any pagelist
> >selection criteria desired.
> >
> I'd like to reserve judgement on this and first record the
> requirements then look at markup options. I am suffering
> information overload at the moment.
Makes sense. FWIW, here are some (counter-)reactions...
> My initial reaction is that having a separate directive has
> a number of advantages:
> - it applies only to wiki pages in bibtex format
I think this can be true for (:pagelist:) as well.
> - I don't yet know whether we need to generate a bibliography
> from multiple wiki pages, or whether we should generate it
> from a single page and use (:include:) to build a bib
> from multiple sources if needed
(:pagelist:) can handle either case.
> - having (:cite:) and (:bibtex:) pair highlights their
> inter-dependence to casual authors, rather than perhaps
> overloading (:pagelist:) with options that only apply
> when used in conjunction with (:cite:)
> - I think I'll need to re-interpret (:bibtex:) when
> outputting raw LaTeX so that we generate a bib file
Both of these items make a huge amount of sense to me, and definitely
argue for a separate directive.
It's also worth pointing out that it's possible to make direct
use of the pagelist functions without calling it "(:pagelist:)".
The (:searchresults:) directive does this, for example. So, it's
not at all hard to have a markup rule that converts
(:bibtex ...options...:)
into
(:pagelist fmt=bibliography ...options...:)
and then let the built-in pagelist routines handle the rest.
Pm
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