Formatting citations in a bibliography

[Mata Stevenson]

Hello,

We're using FP2002 on PCs and need advice on the best way to style
citations in bibiographies transfered into HTML from Word format. We've
tried using a separate stylesheet, entering the style format in the
header and also at the individual entries. In many cases the result on
screen is perfect, but printouts show a variety of styles, some without
hanging indent, some without the spacing we've chosen. We suspect that
different style commands are taking priority in these cases.

In a few cases we've copied and pasted citations from Word, but we
really prefer cleaner HTML. In most cases we've converted the tables in
the original docs to text, copied and pasted special to unformatted text
and copied that to Notepad. From Notepad we select portions of the
entries and paste under the appropriate headings on the web page. We
then have to delete twice at the end of each entry and substitue an
Enter (otherwise selecting the entries as a group and applying the
..Citation format creates a hanging indent for the entire section rather
than for each entry).

I can offer a link to one example where the citation style works on the
screen but not in print, hoping that someone can advise us on what steps
we might take to convert bibliographies from Word to HTML without such a
struggle with the citation formatting.

http://www3.fitnyc.edu/library/research_guides/internetguide/int_careers
..htm

Other bibliographies on the right middle of
http://www3.fitnyc.edu/library/research_guides/research_guides.htm

As I mentioned, I think the problem is with contradictory style
formatting information. We're wishing to devise a template (at this late
point in the project!). Hope all this is comprehensible!

Thanks, Mata

 

[Jim Buyens]

Howdy.

My suggestion would be:

<table border="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2">Jobs and Careers Web Directory </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img border="0" src="images/tran4x4.gif"
width="25" height="4"></td>
<td><a href="http://careers.org">
http://careers.org</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Links to jobs, job outlook information,
directory of career education, career library.</td>
</tr>
</table>

where images/tran4x4.gif is a trasnparent GIF file.
However, if you need to maintain this information in both
Word and HTML, there may be no good answer.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Mata Stevenson]

Hello again,

I don't think I explained our transferring bibliographies from Word to
HTML issues very well. There are really 2 problems we like to solve
before we create a template and teach others to do this:

1. We have entries like this:
CAREER INFORMATION (subsection heading in separate cell of table. All
the following are in one cell below)

Chastain, Bill W. FIT into the Real World [videorecording]. New York?:
Schnur-Chastain Productions, 198?.
Circulation Desk Video TT 507.F28 C2 5-13

Dolber, Roslyn. College and Career Success for Students with Learning
Disabilities. Lincolnwood, IL: VGM Career Horizons, 1996.
Reference Stacks LC 4818.38.D65 1996

When we transfer text from Word to Notepad (to remove the Word
formatting) then to HTML we need to remove the 2 <br>s at the end of
each entry and substitute a </p><p> to separate these in order to apply
a style to them. Does anyone know a better way to go from Word to FP
which would give us the <p> break instead of the <br>s? It's
time-consuming to attend to each entry.

2. We'd like to use CSS to do a hanging indent for each entry, but are
struggling with choosing between using a separate style sheet, entering
the style definition in the header, or doing inline styles (and we've
done them all, sometimes more than one at a time). We've been successful
in getting the indent and line-spacing we want for on-screen viewing,
but when we print or do "Print Preview" we see different line spacing
and indents for different subsections. I think we have conflicting style
information. I'd appreciate it if someone could diagnose one page and
let me know what we've done wrong and what would be better:
http://www3.fitnyc.edu/library/research_guides/internetguide/int_careers
..htm

The hanging indent doesn't show up in "Print Preview" on page 2, and
neither the indent or the line spacing show up on page 3.

Thanks for any help. I realize this is more an HTML and CSS issue than
strictly an FP issue, but I thought you'd be knowledgeable and we need
to know how to teach this in FP.

Mata