Here's one I have never run into before regarding endnote references to
a bibliography. The entries in the bibliography are numbered and the
notes in the text take the form [3,45], that is, entry number 3, page
45. There can be multiple entries in the main text to this entry number.
The problem comes when the author wants to add another entry to the
bibliography and new text with references to this new entry. Say the new
entry is number 5 on a list of nine, where the bibliography is in
alphabetical order by author. This pushes old the old entries after the
new one down by one number and affects all the in-text notes
accordingly. Is there anyway to automate the renumbering here in the in
line text references so that one doesn't have to go through the text and
change them by hand?
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David Pellquer wrote:
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> Here's one I have never run into before regarding endnote references to
> a bibliography. The entries in the bibliography are numbered and the
> notes in the text take the form [3,45], that is, entry number 3, page
> 45. There can be multiple entries in the main text to this entry number.
> The problem comes when the author wants to add another entry to the
> bibliography and new text with references to this new entry. Say the new
> entry is number 5 on a list of nine, where the bibliography is in
> alphabetical order by author. This pushes old the old entries after the
> new one down by one number and affects all the in-text notes
> accordingly. Is there anyway to automate the renumbering here in the in
> line text references so that one doesn't have to go through the text and
> change them by hand?
If I understand you correctly, you want to use /cross references/
(nothing to do with Ventura endnotes or endnote references) to refer the
reader to specific bibliography entries that are numbered. There is no
note text at page bottom or chapter end, just a reference in the text:
"[3,45]", indicating entry number and the page on which it appears.
I would autonumber the bibliography paragraphs, insert markers in each,
then create the references using cross references to the section number
and page number of the bibliography entry marker desired. I automated
this process for footnotes and endnotes in my "Marker/Xref Note
Method",
when I'd finally had enough of Ventura's buggy footnotes, and wanted the
ability to cross-reference footnotes/endnotes as is often done in
academic works.
What you do is create a marker in the bibliography entry, may as well be
the first item in the paragraph. Could select and copy the text that
should form the marker name, if the formatting allows it, then use left
arrow to move off the text, then ctrl-shift-k (Insert, Marker) to insert
the marker. Paste the name and <enter>, and you have the marker (this
could be scripted, and the script assigned to a shortcut).
Then move to the reference location and press ctrl-shift-c (Insert,
Number/Cross-Reference) to insert a cross reference, choosing the marker
name from the "For" list. I'm not sure you can get the format you want
with a single reference. There's a Page and Section number option, but I
think you'll have to use two separate xrefs to achieve your goal unless
the cross-reference markup can be rearranged by a script (I doubt it).
If there's a lot of these sorts of references and it would be
worthwhile, insertion of the section and p.n. as two separate cross
references could be scripted. E.g., plant the cursor in the biblio entry
to which you want to refer, run a script to grab the markername you've
already created, then plant the cursor where you want the xref and run
another script to generate it.
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Abe Hendin
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