A while back we were discussing the problem of a universal Axiom bibliography and how to handle the issue. There is still a lot of work and thinking to be done, but as a first step I have tried to make a slightly more "bibtex" like bib file for the Axiom pamphlets. It's not really all that exciting - the only real improvement so far is that the authors' names are included - but I am also looking into the previously discussed ideas of annotations being included with each entry and the idea of including "standard" references to online databases such as arXiv.
It turns out there has already been some work done on this, although I doubt it is integrated with any wiki-like web framework. I took a stab at adapting the existing work on annotated bibliographies to what I had done thus far, achieving no noticable success as yet (bst files are something of a mystery... sigh.) However, as long as bst files are on the menu, I wanted to point out the eprint.sty file at http://theoryofcomputing.org/submit/eprint/eprint.html I don't know how significant ToC is in the computer world, but it is hard to deny they have nice looking setups for their papers. Their files appear to be here: http://theoryofcomputing.org/submit/toctexguide.html#download These files might be a good starting point for making an advanced bibliography format for Axiom - I was wondering if anyone knew about ToC or this format, and had an opinion. If these folks are fairly significant they might be a logical partner to work with towards a common goal of universal bibliography formats and entries. Cheers, CY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
