From: alansar@ccs.northeastern.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: automatic re-referencing in W4W 2.0a doesn't work?
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:41:18 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU

In article <1992Sep1.222450.13551@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> tony2@prefect.uucp (21131-gozdz) writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.205836.18721@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> hscohen@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Harvey S. Cohen) writes:
>
>                         [my original post deleted]
>
>>There is no supported bibliographic referencing in W4W. I really wish
>>there were. There is an UNSUPPORTED set of "sample" macros distributed
>>with the latest version of W4W that sort of works.  It stores
>>bibliographic references as Glossary entries. I am pretty sure there is
>>no way to make it work correctly with numbered references. I suggest you
>>use "(Author, year)" style references, with an alphabetized reference
>>list. It's easy to do with the MS software, and it's friendlier for the
>>reader.
>>
>>Now I use EndNote Plus, which is unfriendly and expensive but is a
>>serious biblio database that works correctly with W4W.
>>-- 
>>	Harvey S. Cohen / att!honet6!hsc || hsc@honet6.ATT.COM
>>	AT&T Bell Labs / HO 3B532 / 908 949 0173
>>	Crawfords Corner Rd. / Holmdel, NJ  07733 / U.S.A.
>
>Thanks, Harvey. I concluded that I would finish my paper
>faster if I go back to the prehistoric vi/troff
>combination which at least handles automatic referencing 
>correctly. How the MS guys could come up with their way 
>of handling references is still beyond me.
>
>Tony
>

Tony,

The referencing method you are using is intended for footnotes (the name is
footnote referencing).  There is another method that is more appropriate for
referencing bibliography entries that uses the seq and ref fields (see below).
If you still want to use your method, don't use automatic numbering when you
are inserting the footnote.  Rather use the "Custom Footnote Mark" option and
insert the number that you need.  If you do that, you can copy that reference
anywhere in the document and the number won't change.  This way you sacrifice
having automatic numbering though.

The second method, which is much more general and flexible is described in the
online documentation under "cross-referencing", with the title: "Inserting a
cross reference to an item in a series". In this case your series would be
your references series. It is really nice and you can easily record a few
small macros to assist you in inserting them, including the square brackets.
You can also use this general method to refer to bibliographic entries that
use the [Author year] format, but in this case you don't need to use a
sequence. If the documentation is not clear, I can give you some examples.
I noticed that this particular cross-referencing method wasn't included in
the printed manual.

I hope this helps. 


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