Chris Yocum wrote:
> Hi All,
> I just wanted to let everyone know that I have written up a first
> crack at MHRA styling in footnotes for Docbook.
What's MHRA please, for others as ignorant as myself?
> There are a few limitations at the moment. Everything is linked
> to the book tag at the top of the document and thus can only support
> books at the moment. This is because I couldn't use the ancestor axis
> to match the linkend attribute of the biblioref tag to something in
> the bibliography as the bibliography is not an ancestor (it is an
> ancestral sibling). I am casting about for ways to allow articles to
> join the fun.
Are you using <link linkend=''> ?
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/link.html
In which case you should be able to use the id function?
( id(@linkend) to get to the target)
> Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts or feedback, I would be very
> grateful to hear them. Also, I can provide an example bibliography on
> request. Thank you very much for your time.
Since I'm in no position to say it's 'correct' or not,
I'll leave that to others!
regards
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Dave Pawson
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