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Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

231.0. "<REFERENCE> suggestion" by COOKIE::JOHNSTON () Thu Apr 09 1987 14:00

I think that <REFERENCE>(symbol-name\TEXT) and 
<REFERENCE>(symbol-name\FULL) should be modified so that the 
chapter/header name or caption in final output is distinguished from 
"normal" text.  I don't know if this is best done by delimiting with 
commas, enclosing in quotes, or appearing in italics or bold; I just 
think that whatever it is should be automatic.



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231.1not good for everyoneCLOSET::ANKLAMThu Apr 09 1987 16:297
    
    whatever we did automatically we would be asked to undo, almost
    immediately. This is one of those areas in which by doing nothing
    we allow people to use local conventions or customs.
    
    patti
    
231.2Consider further, pleaseCOOKIE::JOHNSTONThu Apr 09 1987 19:1416
Hmmm.  I was thinking that there was some kind of universal convention 
that would apply, I just didn't know what it was; you know, something from
the Chicago Handbook or ???

You could make it automatic for some convention, then tell how to modify it 
in the System Admin Guide.  How many possibilities can there be?  (I'm not
being cute, lest that's how it's coming across.)

Dare I suggest you allow yet another argument to \TEXT and \FULL, whereby
people could specify enclosing characters (' or "), or bold or italics?

I should note that I have been able to italicize by enclosing <reference> in 
<emphasis> (or maybe I embedded it; anyway it works).  


Rose