Ralf Hemmecke wrote: >>> | > The drastic way... Remove axiom.bib.pamphlet > > Sorry, I take that back. Only remove (most of) the (file referencing) > content. > > I am very much in favour of having a central .bib file (or a collection > of them in a central place), but with actual references to papers and > books. Even better would be what once was in discussion... Online > documentation should directly link a reference in text to the actual > paper if that is somewhere on the internet. But I guess we also care > about printed versions so a .bib file is not such a bad idea in the end. > We should however care about uniqe bibkeys, that would avoid > duplications of entries in axiom.bib. > > Maybe some day .bib files go away since there would be a central > database of references on the internet and one only has to know a unique > key into that database to extract all relevant information needed for a > printed version. But up to then .bib files are of some use.
I did some work earlier on the bibliography question and got pretty close to something I would be happy with, it is still available on my Axiom portal site: http://portal.axiom-developer.org/Members/starseeker/axiombibliographysystem.tar.gz/file_view http://portal.axiom-developer.org/Members/starseeker/axiombibliography.pdf/file_view I suppose the pdf structuring part is of less interest to most, but I also was able to use the ToC style files to generate links from the bibliography to some of the online sources (not all - more work is needed for sources Axiom would want). Also, this bib file allows a comments section on each source. I would suggest this a a preferable way to have a "literate" bib file - it remains a valid bib file, can be referenced directly by all documents without any complications, and can still include comments on the document by us - which to me should be sort of the best of all possible worlds. If it MUST be a pamphlet I would suggest that the noweb part generate, if possible, the simple file to incorporate the bib file and explain our conventions, plus the bib file itself. I doubt any purpose would be served by adding in the bib entries as "source code" in a document, but of course I may be wrong. Cheers, CY _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
