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Spacing Problems with Citations
I am attempting to create a citation style that allows the reference manager
in Microsoft Office Word 2007 to use footnote citations, and have run into two problems. The first problem seems to either be hard coded into Word or an option somewhere that I cannot find; Word inserts a space preceding the citation text when the citation field appears after most non-space, non-tab characters (no space appears after a normal space (U+0020) or a tab (U+0009), but it appears after, for example, em-space (U+2003), and zero-width space (U+200B)). Normally this is not a problem, but my teacher told me that there should not be a space between a period and the footnote number. Is there an option somewhere that I can set in Word to fix this? Is there a way to get Word's citation field to treat a zero-width space as a "space" character (I noticed that the spelling and grammar checker treats it like a space, but the citation field does not)? If not, is there some negative-width Unicode character supported by Word that I can have precede the citation number in the style sheet, so that the space is written over? My other problem concerns superscript citation separators. I figured out a way to get the style sheet (.xsl) to mimic superscript numbers by writing a template that replaces numbers with their corresponding Unicode superscript character. However, I would like to separate citations by a superscript comma, and I have found no Unicode character to do this. I have tried multiple ways of getting the citation to appear superscript, such as the sup/sup tag, using the style attribute of the p/p tag to mimic superscript, among others, but found that Word seems to ignore any HTML/CSS that should change the size, font-face, color, position, etc. of a citation. Why does this happen, and how can I get the commas in my citations to display superscript without having to manually superscript them after every bibliographic update? Thank you. |
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Spacing Problems with Citations
I figured out how to fix the first problem, but not the second one. By
placing the citation field inside of a quote field (and not encasing the citation field in "..."), the citation field does not display the space (since there is a space between the word quote and the citation field), but the space does not display due to the nature of the quote field. However, I am still looking for an answer to the second problem, and I would also appreciate a way to solve the first problem that does not involve nesting fields. |
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Spacing Problems with Citations
On 3 jan, 02:13, Jason wrote:
I figured out how to fix the first problem, but not the second one. *By placing the citation field inside of a quote field (and not encasing the citation field in "..."), the citation field does not display the space (since there is a space between the word quote and the citation field), but the space does not display due to the nature of the quote field. *However, I am still looking for an answer to the second problem, and I would also appreciate a way to solve the first problem that does not involve nesting fields. Regarding your second problem: in-text citations inherit the style of the "parent" they belong to rather than using the style returned by the stylesheet. By default this is the paragraph style of the paragraph they belong to. I guess there are arguments both in favor and against that decision. In Word you can create character styles and imply them to an in-text citation. Then when you execute the stylesheet again to 'reformat' all in-text citations and bibliographies, the character style you applied to the in-text citation remains (it is the in-text citation "parent" style, so it inherits that one). So the first time when you enter the in-text citation, you have to manually set its style to your prefered character style, and as of then, it will always be formatted correctly. To create your own character style for citations, open up the style pane (alt+ctrl+shift+s). Then at the bottom click the "New style" button. In the window you get, set the following: Name: Citation (or whatever you prefer) Style type: Character Style based on: Default Paragraph Font Click the "Format ..." button and select "Font ...". Select "Superscript" and press "Ok". Then whenever you have added an in-text citation, just select it, and set its style to the 'Citation' style you created. Not a complete solution, but certainly a manageable workaround. Yves -- http://bibliography.codeplex.com |
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