trouble disambiguating by title

m_gaster
Alright, So I had a desire to create a citation style for MLA footnotes instead of the in-text citation. So I hack and cut my way through the existing Modern Languages Association style and created a version for footnotes. I believe I have everything correct except for disambiguating subsequent citations. The first note is a full note and then the rest should be "Author-short location." Except when it needs more info, then it should be "Author-short, title-short location.".
However, I can't seem to get the conditional disambiguate command to work:
<choose>
<if disambiguate="true">
<text macro="title-short"/>
</if>
</choose>
It seems as if it only works for first citations and it will not work for any subsequent citations. Is this correct, and is there any better way of doing this? Or is there something else wrong. I only have a little background with any kind of script, so any help would be appreciated.
Matthew
  • bdarcus
    It seems as if it only works for first citations and it will not work for any subsequent citations.
    Depends on the context. Is there an outer conditional that constrains this rule to the first citation?
  • m_gaster
    edited November 18, 2008
    My citation section is divided into
    01<if position="subsequent">
    02 <group delimiter=" ">
    03 <choose>
    04 <if variable="author editor translator" match="any">
    05 <group delimiter=", ">
    06 <text macro="author-short"/>
    07 <choose>
    08 <if disambiguate="true">
    09 <text macro="title-short"/>
    10 </if>
    11 </choose>
    12 </group>
    13 </if>
    14 <else>
    15 <text macro="title-short"/>
    16 </else>
    17 </choose>
    18 <text variable="locator"/>
    19 </group>
    20</if>
    21 <else>
    ...full citation details...

    This works except for the disambiguate statement... I was playing with it, and if I change the position to 'first' (in line 1) the disambiguate statement works... Thus I was confused...
    Sorry I don't post in forums so I don't know if there is a better way to format this...

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