Shouldn't books have titles?

[dvanhorn]

Shouldn't there be a title argument?

(book-location [#:edition edition
                #:publisher publisher]) → element?
  edition : any/c = #f
  publisher : any/c = #f

[dvanhorn]

Or maybe I misunderstood the purpose of book-location. I have a citation to a paper that appears in a book, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to create that entry.

[jeapostrophe]

book-location is definitely intended to be used with the #:is-book? argument of make-bib. So, it's really for citing entire books. How off does the citation look if you use proceedings-location? I think you could easily make the function you want by comparing the two functions. Also, you can also just type in a string if you don't want to spend the time right now to make a reusable function.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:43 PM, David Van Horn [email protected] wrote:

Or maybe I misunderstood the purpose of book-location. I have a citation to a paper that appears in a book, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to create that entry.

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[dvanhorn]

The problem with using proceedings-location is that the result says "In Proc.", which is pretty far of the mark. I'll submit a pull request for a new function.

Thanks.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Jay McCarthy [email protected] wrote:

book-location is definitely intended to be used with the #:is-book? argument of make-bib. So, it's really for citing entire books. How off does the citation look if you use proceedings-location? I think you could easily make the function you want by comparing the two functions. Also, you can also just type in a string if you don't want to spend the time right now to make a reusable function.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:43 PM, David Van Horn <[email protected]

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Or maybe I misunderstood the purpose of book-location. I have a citation to a paper that appears in a book, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to create that entry.

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[dvanhorn]

Actually, I'm just going to close this. In my case, it's a festschrift and probably not re-usable.

[rfindler]

Feschrifts seems fairly common, as does writing book chapters that are individually cite able. Not that you need to do work, but it would be welcome.

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Closed #35 https://github.com/racket/scribble/issues/35.

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[mflatt]

As Jay says, the element for a make-bib location doesn't have to be constructed by a provided function like book-location, but the documentation doesn't provide any guidance on how location text should be formatted to fit in. I guess there's a trade-off between always using function and pinning down a fixed format for bib entries, but I think the current format should be better documented.