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In article <992@pur-phy> cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen) writes:
>The ideal solution would be to allow the user full control of the format
>for things like this.  For citations, you want to have access to the
>Category Name, the page and chapter (heck, why not the paragraph and
>line also) the referenced object occurred on, and the citation "number".
>Then just insert these into an edit box along with whatever else you
>want.  Once it's done for citations, it's easy to do the same for
>footnotes, endnotes, bibliography references, etc. 

Agreed, with variations: the standard citation box they have now, with an
"free-form" option that allows you to write in the citation text and a
variable which expands to the number of the cited object (depends on it's
classification).  Variables should be expanded in the free-form box, too,
and a chapter variable is also a neccessity.

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