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- %C%A Bibliography
- %C%by Daniel Dorling
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- [Note: This is a full version of Daniel's "Bibliography"; it includes
- over 900 entries. It is in PipeDream format; if you want to print
- using it as a parameter file (see GetStarted - Labels on the July 1990
- disc) then you need to save it in Tab file format (under another name).
- If you add substantially to it, or create your own then I would be
- interested in a disc copy please. Gerald L Fitton 2nd September 1990]
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- Here is a copy of a my bibliography (which I'm afraid has grown to over
- 900 items since I last wrote to you). I use it as a record of anything
- I have been looking at in my PhD studies, hence the apparent lack of a
- coherent theme! I have stripped off the fields after the key-words,
- which included a summary, (numerical) evaluation, and information on
- the library source for every document, which reduces the file's size
- somewhat.
-
- If you double click on the "Paper" file, it will pull all the other
- files up and give you an idea of how I am trying to use the
- bibliography. the footnote numbers (in super-script) are references to
- slots in the "F" file which is a record of the footnotes for the paper
- - the examples were taken at random. This structure allows footnotes to
- be moved around with a fairly minimal amount of effort. Each takes its
- number as an increment of the footnote above it, so only a couple of
- changes have to be made if their order is rearranged. The footnotes
- themselves are taken as references from a file of quotations and other
- such things which can be maintained to give a consistent database of
- information; thus allowing a student to simultaneously write papers and
- a thesis without duplicating too much detail - well perhaps!
-
- I have only included a few quotations (my "collection" is beginning to
- rival the bibliography in size) to illustrate the connection. This file
- contains references itself to the sources file. The simple theory
- behind this is (reiterating what you well know) to avoid typing any
- substantial piece of text in more than once - to save effort and so
- that any corrections are applied universally. The structure I have
- adopted is the simplest I can come up with - the major worry is that a
- few silly mistakes could require a lot of work making lots of
- corrections - if one file were, say, sorted while another was not
- loaded. The simple answer is not to sort the basic files - just copies
- of them.
-
- The solution is by no means ideal. It is hardly as slick as many
- Apple-Mac packages which arrange footnotes automatically, and put them
- under the text they refer to; but it does allow greater flexibility
- than any other system I know. It is possible to arrange the footnotes
- under the text by taking the files "Paper" and "F" into Acorn's DTP as
- separate stories spread over the same pages, frame sizes must then be
- manipulated by hand to get the correct footnotes under their respected
- pieces of text and around related graphics. I suspect there is no
- system at present that will automatically place footnotes when the
- pages are complex collections of graphics - perhaps Pipedream-4?
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- I am having trouble with deliberately inserted page-breaks and printing
- to a laser printer (remotely via a file transfer to MS-DOS) with
- version 3.10 which I did not have with version 3. Basically, any
- deliberately inserted page break (using Control EIP) throws the
- laser-printer entirely, it ignores it, prints to the bottom of the
- paper, and prints no further sheets! Have you heard of any other cases
- of this (just stick a page break in the middle of this letter and try
- printing it)? If not, it is probably something about the set-up of the
- laser-printer (where I work) that has changed.
-
- Daniel Dorling 16/7/90
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