Help creating bibliography entries

[Art Campbell]

I did something similar for my thesis, and it worked fine for me.... but
that's still a small sample.

I started with a table similar to what you have set up, but also found it
kind of limiting. So I migrated to using a separate FM file for each work
(and something about the work in the file name, for easy ID).

On the first page of the file, I used uniquely named paragraph tags for each
part of the citation: Title, Author, Publisher, and so on. Each one became a
simple cross ref that was unique and was easier format for different
purposes, for either footnotes or the bibliography, depending on how you
order the series of cross-refs.

Everything under that was text, which I used for my own notes, some of which
I used in the thesis and most of which just stayed hidden.

It would be pretty easy to convert your tabular format to a file based, but
I'm

Art Campbell
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Rob <rkfranklin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing my PhD thesis using FrameMaker 7.  I am wondering if
> anyone has used a really good system for making bibliographies.  I
> have found a couple of solutions such as fbib and citemaker, and I
> might eventually use one of them, but for now I am trying to use a
> simpler method because I am running Frame through CrossOver on my
> Macbook Pro, and additionally, I would like to avoid reentering all of
> my bibliographic info into BibTeX format if possible.
>
> I currently have all of my bibliography entries in a table in the
> following format:
>
> [Abc03] Abc, Xyz, "A Title," A Journal, vol. 335, pp. 427-47, 2003.
>
> I am using a table so that the tag part ([Abc03] in the example) is in
> the first column of the table and can cross referenced.  In the text I
> would like to cite a single entry like this: [Abc03], and multiple
> entries like this: [Abc03, Xyz90, Xyz02].  However, I can only figure
> out how to generate cross references in one of these two formats:
> [[Abc03], [Xyz90], [Xyz02]] or [Abc03], [Xyz90], [Xyz02], and neither
> of these is acceptable.  The problem is that I can't figure out how to
> grab the "Abc03" part of the tag without grabbing the [ ] brackets
> too.  Is there any way to hide the [ ] backets in the cross reference
> using conditional text or perhaps by putting the Abc03 part into some
> type of marker or variable?  If not, does anyone have a suggestion for
> a better way to generate a bibliography?  Also, if anyone has had good
> experiences with either fbib or citemaker and FrameMaker 7 that would
> be helpful too as using one of them might solve my problem too.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
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