Hi,
There was a spate of self-introductions here recently, so I thought I'd
chime in.
I'm here investigating, for now, how best I might contribute to speed
things along on the integration of bibliographic elements into OO Writer
and perhaps Base. For technical expertise, I bring several facets
already (however roughly) cut and the willingness to further cut and
polish those as well as others, as needed and as my time, inclinations,
ambitions, and other germanities permit, supposing those do permit.
Of the facets roughly cut:
1) I've spent a couple of years (now past, but not for long) integrating
a java toolkit (SGT) for scientific plotting with a java-based
physiology modeling application (JSim).
2) I've developed shell and perl scripting tools to allow the automation
of in-document (FrameMaker) citation style metempsychosis and concurrent
reference list generation founded on a flat-file, refer-type,
command-line personal bibliographic software application, which itself I
rewrote from C as a module-free perl application when the C code became
too expensive to maintain.
3) I've more than a quarter century of experience as a research,
scientific and literary publications editor. I cut my eyeteeth as a
trainer and coordinator of volunteer literary editors using a prototype
of WordStar on prototype Xerox PCs (both the prototype PCs and WordStar
were given to the English Department at the University that sold me my
graduate degree), to cut typesetting expenses; I moved on (later) to
retraining Wang operators to use the then new-fangled Macintoshs
effectively in a corporate environment. I'm now a scientific
publications editor and computer specialist at the University of Washington.
4) Along the way I've used and abused (abused primarily by integrating
the varying functions of) a great deal of word-processing, document
preparation, and relational database software, including among others
groff, WordStar, Word Perfect, MacWrite, Nisus, LaTeX, FrameMaker,
refer, BibTeX, Reflex, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
5) I'm well acquainted with modern markup standards and, so far as is
possible given their ever-changing nature, the principals of the
application of those standards, having briefly studied SGML, as well as
having for the past decade used HTML, XML (primarily XHTML), and CSS
in conjunction with relational database software and php, perl, and
shell scripting. Recently, I've been working my way around to accepting
that the next thing for me to learn intimately is XSL, but I've been
putting that off because I'm bone-lazy.
6) I use various Unix platforms (Solaris, Macintosh, Linux) and tools
willingly, and DOS-Windows with reluctance when necessary.
--
James Eric Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Computer Specialist, Research Publications Editor
University of Washington, Box 357962, Seattle WA USA 98195
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