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In article <9410252054522647794@aol.com> Dan Wages <DanW981568@AOL.COM> writes:
>Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 21:14:51 -0400
>From: Dan Wages <DanW981568@AOL.COM>
>Subject: Formatted Footnotes

><This kind of solution sounds good, but it defeats the whole purpose of the
>document not relying on any SINGLE format! If you manually insert a formatted
>footnote, and then have to resubmit your ms. for another publishing format,
>you have to do everything over again! What we need is: The ability to insert
>a formatted reference at the point of citation.>

>One of us doesn't understand the other, or perhaps neither of us understands
>the other.  The formatted reference *is* inserted at the point of citation,
>by simply clicking on the particular book/journal/catalog or what-have-you in
>ENDNOTE after you indicate in WORD where the footnote is to go.  This is not
>what I would call "manually" inserting a footnote.

I didn't make myself clear.

I want to be able to insert a *temporary* citation, and then have EndNote scan 
the document and insert the correct formatted reference at the time of the 
scan--and that formatted reference should be inserted at the point of 
citation, not stuck into the list of references at the end. That way my 
document is independent of the documentation style.

What you describe means that at the time of composition, one must determine 
what the documentation style is.

>You can have as many different formats, for different publishers, as you like
>as long as you give them different names.  If you are submitting the same
>manuscript to publishers who use different formats, I see no alternative to
>printing it again with a different format.  Since it can be done by pointing
>and clicking with minimal writing, however, it doesn't seem terribly onerous.

If I've inserted hundreds of footnotes in Chicago A style, and then want to 
switch to MLA style, your method requires me to reinsert by hand those 
hundreds of citations. True, the formatting of the reference is automated; but 
it shouldn't be so hard for the "scan" phase to insert the formatted reference 
at the point where the temporary citation occurs.

    John N
    jgn+@osu.edu