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Mervyn,
  A kludge for your bodge....
  Why not write a little xpl that will take the sequence
"space-v-.-space", put it in normal mode then revert to italics, and
store it on a hot-key?  While you're at it, if you find yourself
forgetting to put the space in the year field, put something
otherwise weird there ("qwerty" for instance), and add to the
same xpl program a ci that deletes all occurrences of "qwerty".
Jerry Walsh
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> (3) I've sorted out a bodge to solve a long-standing Ibid
> problem.
>
> Lawyers like the names of cases to be in italics, and the
> citation (the year, volume, series, and page and sometimes the
> court) in a strictly conventional form. Ibid as it is is not
> suitable; if you use the "article inn journal" screen, the
> details are all there but the footnote is quite unacceptable
> when formatted.
>
>  NB v. 2 used to have the Harvard Law Review style manual, but
> v. 4n no longer does.
>
> So I worked out this: if you put the case name in the book/long
> work title, and the citation in the Descriptor, it comes out
> almost perfect; the only error is that the "v." will also be
> italicised. Also, you must put a single space at least in the
> Year field, otherwise you get a corrupt footnote and record
> number errror message.
>
> I have edited nbibid.tpl to change the field names slightly so
> that I am reminded which fields to use, and that I must put a
> single space in the Year.
>
> The keynote and annotation fields function as usual.
>
> NBIBID.TPL does not like being edited in NB, so I did this with
> Windows's basic editor. I added an extra word or two to the
> various fields. However, it seems that there is an absolute
> maximum number of characters that NBIBID.TPL can have, for if
> you put more in then you get a corrupted display when you use
> Ibid. It's as if there is just so much memory allowed for
> the left side of that screen. I discovered this, as I wanted to
> put the Law Report fields in a distincitive print mode and
> could not do so: the <<MDxx>> delta was verboten when all the
> other text I added was there.
>
> I give this bodge 95% for success. At least, I can now use Ibid
> with law reports, and just try to remember to change the mode of
> the "v."
>
> Mervyn.
> There may be other customising changes people want to make for
> their own idiosyncratic use of Ibid. If anyone wants to see
> what I did - shout and I'll pass the file round.
> Mervyn E. Bennun,
> c/o First National Bank,
> Thibault Branch,
> P.O. 6086 C.P.,
> Roggebaai,
> Cape Town,
> 8012 SOUTH AFRICA.
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Prof. Jerome T. Walsh, Head
Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Botswana