On Feb 17, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Pierre Girard wrote:
b) I care a lot about interoperability
What is interoperability? The ability to interchange data between different bibliography applications?
Yes, and legacy data, including that which comes from the world of online catalogs and such. Notwithstanding BibTeX, most available bibliographic data is stored in MARC, and a fair bit in RIS and Refer.
I'm all for interroperability but not necessarely at the price of evolution.
Absolutely agreed. But evolution -- it is my argument -- is necessarily tied to interoperability. We live in a networked distributed world, and anything we do needs to take that into account.
I argued to the LoC they ought to allow any content in certain MODS fields, which would include MathML. However, as soon as you allow that, it means that software has to be able to process that content or the data is meaningless.
What i'm asking is not even evolution, bibtex has been doing math in titles for a very long time although it has other flaws.
I constantly complain about BibTeX, but if you do math, I think it's going to be the best solution until MathML is widely used.
I realize that i'm probably the only person that asked for this feature so far and i understand that it most likely won't be a priority but i didn't have much to lose by asking for it especially at an early development stage.
And it's appreciated. What you want is similar to what others have asked for. It's just going to take some time to figure it out and get it implemented.
Bruce
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