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In article <199401111951.OAA29038@stat.ufl.edu> Jean-Michel Lacroix <lacroix@STAT.UFL.EDU> writes:

>>Can someone help me.  I have a recurring situation with formatting
>>bibliography entries, such as when I format publisher information.
>>For instance, I would like publisher info to appear as follows:
>>
>>COMPLETE:            Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
>>PUBLISHER ONLY:      University of Chicago Press.
>>CITY ONLY:           Chicago.
>>NEITHER:             (nothing)
>>
>I assume that before the City you have a period, So, make the period=
> BEFORE
>the City dependant of the City.  So, you can make the format like=
> this:

>Something|.=A0City||:=A0Publisher|.

>If there is no CIty, you will have something like that:
>Something.

>If ther is a city you will have:
>Something. City.

>And if there is a publisher, you will have:

>Something. City: Publisher.


This is a helpful answer, but the classic case of the problem is when you have 
city, publisher, and date inside parenthesis.

Then you would want:

1) COMPLETE:            (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)
2) PUBLISHER ONLY:      (University of Chicago Press, 1993)
3) CITY ONLY:           (Chicago, 1993)
4) NEITHER:             (1993)

Now the problem here is that to get the colon-less PUBLISHER ONLY, the colon 
has to be bound to the city. But then in case #3, you'd get (Chicago:, 1993). 
Also, what should the comma be bound to? It should be bound to SOMETHING, 
since it has to go away when neither place nor publisher is specified (case 
#4); and yet it sometimes occurs after the city (case #3) and sometimes after 
the publisher (case #2), so neither of these are acceptable.

Perhaps I'm completely confused on this, but I have had problems writing a 
style format to handle these cases. In this case with the comma and the 
parens, you can't depend on the previous terminal punctuation being a period, 
which is the crafty solution of Monsieur Lacroix.

One might object that case #2 is rare, but I think not. I deal 
with plenty of early texts where the question of place of publisher may be 
genuinely unanswerable.

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