[Bug 157064] Allow customization of the text reference style(s) from the bibliographic entry

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157064

--- Comment #11 from Lucas <lucas75 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #10)

> If you need to explain it's not easy to understand :-)

Actually, the video is more about the programming. I programmed a mini
database/formatter and the dialog to validate that the concept is sound. But it
allows to see the proposed dialog working.

The abstraction is actually simple. The bibliographic database/formatter module
will return the "Formatted Reference Label", the "Formatted Index Entry" and a
"Duplicate Resolution Key" (which is a counter name). The index will use this
information to resolve the conflicts and ask the database/formatter module to
reformat the label/index entry with the appropriated resolution key. 

This is necessary because Author-Year bibliographic styles (such as APA and
ABNT) require a counter to disambiguate two or more references of the same
author in the same year. This also works for numeric bibliographic styles (such
as IEEE) and for styles with an abbrev and a sequential.

It took me two days to program this prototype.
It is not that complicated.


> But I think you tackle second level problems,
> and I believe we should stick to the very basics.

When you talked in consolidating the Enhancement Requests I thought the idea
was to make the plan to achieve a more complete solution.


> 3rd party tools provide all flexibility but have issues due to Java. 
> Personally I'd rather solve this than invent the wheel new

This was one of the points of my proposal.
A javaless/extensionless integration.

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