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joker667
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:02 am Post subject: howto bypass the character restrictions in bibliography |
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Hi,
I am writing my thesis with writer, and now I realised, that in the bibliography there is a limit for the allowed characters in titel, book, authors etc. I have Books with a Title larger than the space provided by the bibliography, how can I bypass this limits?
I tried to open the biblio.dbf with calc, and edit it there, but it has no effect in the bibliogrphy-database modul.
thanks,
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JohnV
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| Open a Writer doc, press F4, right click Bibliography, Edit DB File and click the Tables icon. When "biblio" appears right click it and Edit. |
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jrkrideau
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:50 am Post subject: Re: howto bypass the character restrictions in bibliography |
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| joker667 wrote: | Hi,
I am writing my thesis with writer, and now I realised, that in the bibliography there is a limit for the allowed characters in titel, book, authors etc. I have Books with a Title larger than the space provided by the bibliography, how can I bypass this limits?
I tried to open the biblio.dbf with calc, and edit it there, but it has no effect in the bibliogrphy-database modul.
thanks,
joker667 |
I have just been having a look at the bibliography function and it is not very flexible. In particular, be careful that the Authors and Shortname fields are exactly as needed. If you have not done so I would recommend a trial run with three or four different types of references (say a journal article, a book, a technical report and perhaps a newspaper article or an electronic refrence depending on your subject matter and referencing style to see how things work out. It may save you a good bit of editing later.
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joker667
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:41 am Post subject: |
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@JohnV: great tip,you saved my day
@jrkrideau: I am using the bibliography for about one month now, but I think I will redo it, saving all the relevant Information in one "Custom" Field (Except Author perhaps). The automatic formatting is too much for just one thesis
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jrkrideau
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| joker667 wrote: | @JohnV: great tip,you saved my day
@jrkrideau: I am using the bibliography for about one month now, but I think I will redo it, saving all the relevant Information in one "Custom" Field (Except Author perhaps). The automatic formatting is too much for just one thesis
thanks,
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I disagree about the automatic formatting being too much  It is very useful especially if you want to use the same references again in another paper or if for some reason you need to change the formating in the thesis. Maybe your professor goes crazy for example and you need to work with another one.
. I just am worried that the bbiliography is not as good a tool as it might be. 
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