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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite bugs, etc.
Message-ID: <2892@fluke.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 17:14:25 GMT
References: <992@pur-phy>
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Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
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In article <992@pur-phy> cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen) writes:
>The ideal solution would be to allow the user full control of the format
>for things like this.  For citations, you want to have access to the
>Category Name, the page and chapter (heck, why not the paragraph and
>line also) the referenced object occurred on, and the citation "number".
>Then just insert these into an edit box along with whatever else you
>want.  Once it's done for citations, it's easy to do the same for
>footnotes, endnotes, bibliography references, etc. 

Agreed, with variations: the standard citation box they have now, with an
"free-form" option that allows you to write in the citation text and a
variable which expands to the number of the cited object (depends on it's
classification).  Variables should be expanded in the free-form box, too,
and a chapter variable is also a neccessity.

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