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%C%by Daniel Dorling
[Note: This is a full version of Daniel's "Bibliography"; it includes
over 900 entries. It is in PipeDream format; if you want to print
using it as a parameter file (see GetStarted - Labels on the July 1990
disc) then you need to save it in Tab file format (under another name).
If you add substantially to it, or create your own then I would be
interested in a disc copy please. Gerald L Fitton 2nd September 1990]
Here is a copy of a my bibliography (which I'm afraid has grown to over
900 items since I last wrote to you). I use it as a record of anything
I have been looking at in my PhD studies, hence the apparent lack of a
coherent theme! I have stripped off the fields after the key-words,
which included a summary, (numerical) evaluation, and information on
the library source for every document, which reduces the file's size
somewhat.
If you double click on the "Paper" file, it will pull all the other
files up and give you an idea of how I am trying to use the
bibliography. the footnote numbers (in super-script) are references to
slots in the "F" file which is a record of the footnotes for the paper
- the examples were taken at random. This structure allows footnotes to
be moved around with a fairly minimal amount of effort. Each takes its
number as an increment of the footnote above it, so only a couple of
changes have to be made if their order is rearranged. The footnotes
themselves are taken as references from a file of quotations and other
such things which can be maintained to give a consistent database of
information; thus allowing a student to simultaneously write papers and
a thesis without duplicating too much detail - well perhaps!
I have only included a few quotations (my "collection" is beginning to
rival the bibliography in size) to illustrate the connection. This file
contains references itself to the sources file. The simple theory
behind this is (reiterating what you well know) to avoid typing any
substantial piece of text in more than once - to save effort and so
that any corrections are applied universally. The structure I have
adopted is the simplest I can come up with - the major worry is that a
few silly mistakes could require a lot of work making lots of
corrections - if one file were, say, sorted while another was not
loaded. The simple answer is not to sort the basic files - just copies
of them.
The solution is by no means ideal. It is hardly as slick as many
Apple-Mac packages which arrange footnotes automatically, and put them
under the text they refer to; but it does allow greater flexibility
than any other system I know. It is possible to arrange the footnotes
under the text by taking the files "Paper" and "F" into Acorn's DTP as
separate stories spread over the same pages, frame sizes must then be
manipulated by hand to get the correct footnotes under their respected
pieces of text and around related graphics. I suspect there is no
system at present that will automatically place footnotes when the
pages are complex collections of graphics - perhaps Pipedream-4?
I am having trouble with deliberately inserted page-breaks and printing
to a laser printer (remotely via a file transfer to MS-DOS) with
version 3.10 which I did not have with version 3. Basically, any
deliberately inserted page break (using Control EIP) throws the
laser-printer entirely, it ignores it, prints to the bottom of the
paper, and prints no further sheets! Have you heard of any other cases
of this (just stick a page break in the middle of this letter and try
printing it)? If not, it is probably something about the set-up of the
laser-printer (where I work) that has changed.
Daniel Dorling 16/7/90
C.U.R.D.S.
Clairmont Bridge
The University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU