Bibliography mysteries

[bezvardis]

Is there anybody out there who has a good experience working with NeoOffice bibliography function. I liked the idea of havig it first but then encountered massive problems, that I don't see how to overcome. There is a possibility to format the way how the bibliography data is displayed in the document. You can decide if you want the short name in brackets and in what type of brackets or if you don't want the brackets at all. You can also decide in what sequence and in what appearence the data from the database would appear in the Bibliography list. But the problem is - the rather complicated (and I mean it!) way of doing this is only good as far as you work in this one particular document and so long as you don't delete inserted bibliography from your document. If you open a new document or you delete the bibliography from the current document, all formatting is lost. New document is opened with the veird default values for bibliography display. I wander if there is anything one can do to preserve the bibliography formatting and use it in other documents? It is also strange that for exampl setting for display of brackets for the short bibliography entry is preserved for all documents, but the rest of formatting falls back to the default values. Is maybe this some kind of bug?

[bezvardis]

well, after searching and reading something about this issue, I still don't have an answer but I would change my question: is there a way how to change the default structure of bibliography entries?

[sardisson]

You might have better luck asking at http://oooforum.org; I don't think many (any) of us have much experience with the bibliography function....

Smokey

[bezvardis]

Thanx for the suggestion. I found the answer to my question there - it is as simple as this: once you create a bibliography index with all the correct settings and it works well, you can copy it to another document and then update its contents. The settings are stored with the particular table (apparently in each document separately) rather than somewhere in the program's settings. So in fact this is a work-around a very clumsy design. Apart from that the bibliography feature is just great.