Re: DOCBOOK: Markup questions

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:42:32PM +0100, Moritz Weiten wrote:
> Hello!
>  
> I have some questions concerning DocBook-markup:
>  
>  
> What is the correct way to mark-up a Table of Contents and a Table of
> Figures?

Generally you don't have to do any markup for these.
They are automatically generated by the stylesheets.

> Basically, I have three ways to organize my bibliography: With
> abbreviations, such as "[Walsh2002]", with numbers, such as "[1], [2],
> ." and according to the so called "Harvard System". I understood that I
> can implement the first system by using <biblioentry id="[Walsh2002]">
> and <xref linkend="[walsh2002]">.
> 
> First question: Do I implement the numbering system in the same way?
> (E.g. <biblioentry id="[2]"> and <xref linkend="[2]">)

As someone else said, you cannot use the brackets in id
and linkend attributes.  But you can get the text you want
using xreflabel and a permitted id:
 
 <biblioentry id="biblio-2" xreflabel="[2]">  and  <xref linkend="biblio-2">)

> Second question: The Harvard System requires different kinds of
> references to the same entry in the bibliography, e.g. ".Walsh (2002)
> states that ..." and ". DocBook-standard (Walsh, 2002)". How do I go
> about this?

Different references under what circumtstances?
Can a stylesheet distinguish the differences in the markup?

> How can I place an entry in the Bibliography for a source with a URL (a
> specification, an Online-Journal, etc.)?

In biblioentry, the title can contain a ulink element.
Is that what you meant?

> If I have an Entry in the Bibliography for an article in a journal, do I
> have to split the entry (with "<bibliomixed>" and "<bibliomset>") in
> order to include the title of the journal?
> 
>  
> 
> What about the place of a publication - I did not find the appropriate
> tag!? 

<address> ?

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