wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan) (05/01/91)
Ok, ok. The 'right' way to do citations is the way LaTeX and Eplain do it :-) (or maybe APA style). Sigh. My daughter's English teacher wants citations done the old-fashioned way (aka MLA style). You know, a genuine footnote with the full citation the first time a work is cited, then the usual 'op cit' and 'ibid' in italics later on in the same chapter. Et cetera ad nauseum. Does anyone have a style file or Eplain macro to do this EASILY or will my daughter have to do it the ugly manual way? (at least the footnote formatting would be covered). Something on ymir or sun.soe.clarkson.edu? I'm a rank amateur at this point (not even a novice :-) and I'd like to avoid having to do either the manual stuff or write my own macros. Piet? -dh? Anyone? Oh, ******THANKS!!!!***** -- Bill Meahan (WA8TZG) | Programming is simple: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org OR | uunet!mailrus!sharkey!wa8tzg!wwm | All you have to do is put the right "Home for Cybernetic Orphans" | numbers in the right memory locations!
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (05/02/91)
>>>>> wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan) (BM) writes:
BM> Sigh. My daughter's English teacher wants citations done the
BM> old-fashioned way (aka MLA style). You know, a genuine footnote with
BM> the full citation the first time a work is cited, then the usual 'op
BM> cit' and 'ibid' in italics later on in the same chapter. Et cetera ad
BM> nauseum.
The bibliography processor Tib can do this. It uses a preprocessor and it
needs a refer bibliography. It could be done with BibTeX (I suppose) but it
would take a lot of work.
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Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')kris@diku.dk (Kristoffer H. Holm) (05/03/91)
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes: >>>>>> wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan) (BM) writes: >BM> Sigh. My daughter's English teacher wants citations done the >BM> old-fashioned way (aka MLA style). You know, a genuine footnote with >BM> the full citation the first time a work is cited, then the usual 'op >BM> cit' and 'ibid' in italics later on in the same chapter. Et cetera ad >BM> nauseum. >The bibliography processor Tib can do this. It uses a preprocessor and it >needs a refer bibliography. It could be done with BibTeX (I suppose) but it >would take a lot of work. Not that much work---I used a similar trick to integrate BibTeX with AmS-TeX: How about (1) redefining \bibitem[KEY]{REF}{TEXT} so that it defines some control sequece \REF@ (or whatever) that prints the TEXT in a footnote and then (globally) redefines itself (i.e., \REF@) to the appropriate 'ibid' or whatever, (2) redefine \cite{REF} to generate just \REF@, and then (3) rereading the BibTeX .bbl file (after the new definitions have effect but before the document) ? Happy Haxing, kris -- Kristoffer H{\o}gsbro Holm <kris@diku.dk> Computer Science Dept. (TOPPS group), University of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 Copenhagen {\O} +45 31396466