Re: text to bibliography?

On Aug 18, 5:23 am, p0 <yves.dho...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On the occasions when programming new reference styles has been
mentioned here, the MVPs have stated it appears to be impossibly
complicated to do so.

It is not. It is pretty basic XSLT, nothing fancy at it.

Like you said above, all people have to do is read the available
help:
* you have the open xml specification;

I do?

Yes. It is an ECMA standard (and now even an ISO standard). The
specification is open and freely available.

ECMA:http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
Microsoft:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905545.aspx
ISO: they are still finalizing the text

* you have blog articles by Microsoft people;

I do?

Yes. Probably the best example out there to get you started on
creating your own bibliographic style ishttp://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2007/12/14/biblio...
but there are others.

* you have MSDN articles describing the format (not extensively
though);

I do?

Yes. For examplehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb258052.aspx

To come back to your original question: "text to bibliography?" Yes it
is possible to automate that process but highly complex and therefore
99% of the people out there will not be able to do it and the
practical answer is: No.

Funny definition of "automate" ...

Thanks for the links. I'll look at them to see how daunting they are.
.

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