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Markus Hoenicka | 1 Sep 2003 01:54
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Issues and Observations

Hi,

another quick note...

Justus H. Piater writes:
 >    (e) All output formats: I do not understand how THES references are
 >        supposed to work. The output contains superflouous dots. Is the
 >        degree-granting institution to be coded as the publisher? In
 >        that case, the output order would be
 >        unconventional. Eur.J.Pharmacol. adds a trailing "(nd)", even
 >        though the year does show up before.
 > 

The styles are incomplete in that they do not contain specifications
for *all* reference types (I added only those that were important to
me back then). If no matching spec is found, RefDB uses the GEN spec
instead which is a one-size-fits-all fallback. You've found out the
hard way that the results are not convincing.

The solution is to figure out suitable style specifications for THES
and the other missing reference types and add these to the styles.

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Markus

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Markus Hoenicka | 1 Sep 2003 01:42
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Starting reference numbering from a chosen number ?

Marc Baaden writes:
 > But maybe a variable can be set in an XSL file or so ?
 > But in that case one would have to recognize which of
 > the *.bib.xml files is currently processed.
 > 

The easiest way would be to add a switch to refdbib/runbib which sets
the number of the first reference. Would that work with your custom
way of processing the documents?

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Marc Baaden | 1 Sep 2003 08:24
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Re: Starting reference numbering from a chosen number ?


>>> "Markus Hoenicka" said:
 >> Marc Baaden writes:
 >>  > But maybe a variable can be set in an XSL file or so ?
 >>  > But in that case one would have to recognize which of
 >>  > the *.bib.xml files is currently processed.

 >> The easiest way would be to add a switch to refdbib/runbib which sets
 >> the number of the first reference. Would that work with your custom
 >> way of processing the documents?

Yes, that sounds like a great idea and should solve my problem.
(probably I'll have a look at it ..)

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Markus Hoenicka | 1 Sep 2003 20:40
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Re: import problems

Hi,

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > OK, Markus, I am finding the import REALLY buggy.  I have deleted and 
 > recreated the "refs" DB, and then reimported the same file about 5 
 > times, each with different results.  Sometimes only 200 records are 
 > imported, once 650 or so (at which point it complained about a 
 > duplicate ID), and only one time did it import all 1000+ of them.  If I 
 > get a chance, I'll put it in a place where you can take a look.

Yes, please do. It is also important to create a log file with log
level 7 along with the data (it'll slow down the import but I need to
know what's going on). As we've seen before dozens of times,
some bugs show up only on particular systems. I'll make sure to test
your data on the systems that I have access to.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka | 2 Sep 2003 01:44
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Author names with several middle initials ?

Hi,

I've added support for multiple middle initials to RefDB. The current
CVS version ought to support this for all sorts of output. Using this
feature with risx data requires an update to the latest DTD. Use the
following PUBID:

<!DOCTYPE ris PUBLIC "-//Markus Hoenicka//DTD Ris V1.0.1//EN" "http://refdb.sourceforge.net/dtd/risx-1.0.1/risx.dtd">

Please have a look at the CVS version and let me know about problems,
if any. I also intend to finish a new prerelease within a day or two
to simplify testing.

regards,
Markus

Marc Baaden writes:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I just wonder what to do about author names with several middle initials.
 > Like eg Mark S. P. Sansom, which gets reduced to M.S. Sansom whereas I'd
 > like M.S.P. Sansom.
 > 
 > Can this be done (without dvelving too deep into the refdb structure) ?

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Markus Hoenicka | 2 Sep 2003 17:05
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Starting reference numbering from a chosen number ?

Marc Baaden writes:
 > Now I wonder whether there's a possibility to start 
 > numbering from something other than one and how that
 > should/could be done.

I've added support for this feature to the CVS version. Both refdbib
and runbib now support a -N number option to specify where the
reference numbering is supposed to start.

I'll whip up a prerelease today or tomorrow to make the latest
improvements available for testing.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka | 3 Sep 2003 00:40
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ANN: refdb-0.9.4-pre1 available for testing

Hi all,

I've fixed the worst bugs reported after releasing 0.9.3 and added a
couple of features requested lately. See below for the details. I ask
everyone with a little spare time to test drive this prerelease. The
new archive can be found right here:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-0.9.4-pre1.tar.gz

BTW there's also a link on the download page of the RefDB homepage
which always points to the latest prerelease, if there is one.

regards,
Markus

Bugfixes

- fixed a segfault related to log files

- fixed a couple of issues in the risx backend

- fixed missing parentheses around subsequent multiple citations

- fixed the "xsl:call-template : template component.separator not
  found" bug in the DocBook XSLT fo driver file

- fixed some more attribute case mismatches in the DocBook XSLT driver
  files so the output from DocBook XML docs finally seems ok

- fixed a typo in ris.el
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Markus Hoenicka | 4 Sep 2003 00:32
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Re: Issues and Observations

Hi,

the CVS version allows to select the encoding used in the html
backend. Use the refdbc -E command line switch or the "encoding"
config file variable to select a charset. To get something like the
example below, use e.g. refdbc -E "UTF-8".

regards,
Markus

Justus H. Piater writes:
 > Yes, it would be nice to specify a
 >   <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
 > header. BTW, I would love XHTML support...
 > 

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Bruce D'Arcus | 5 Sep 2003 22:11

hmm.. -- config issue with 0.9.4 pre

Just tried compiling the latest release and ran into this:

% ./configure --with-libdbi-lib=/sw/lib/libdbi.0.0.5.dylib 
--with-expat-lib=/sw/lib/libexpat.0.4.0.dylib 
--with-docbook-xsl=/sw/share/xml/xsl/docbook-xsl 
--with-refdb-url=http://darcusb.geo.muohio.edu/refdb 
--with-db-server=sqlite CFLAGS=-L/sw/lib -I/sw/include
configure: error: unrecognized option: -I/sw/include

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Bruce D'Arcus | 5 Sep 2003 22:17

disregard


While the previous config command had worked in the past, the help 
suggested a slight change.  It compiled fine.  Will let you know if 
there are any other problems.

Bruce

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