Hey Robby,
On Jan 14, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Robby Stephenson wrote:
If citeproc were written in c++, and presumably became part of the OOo
codebase, what happens to the style files, like apa-en.csl, etc.? Do
they
become part of every OOo installation?
I see two options:
1) what you're guessing, where CSL remains independent of ODF, but is
used as is in OOo
2) integrate the logic of CSL into ODF, and do CSL import/export as
necessary
In the latter case, citation styles would migrate to the document
level; they become document templates.
There are pros and cons to each approach (one of the strengths of 1 is
that it could lead to compatibility between Word and Writer, because
CSL would certainly be used in both), and I have no strong opinion.
What do you think?
Come to think of it, I wonder if templates can include arbitrary files,
such as a CSL file? That might blur the choice.
In any case, I believe strongly in the need for a document-format
agnostic citation style language, and would like as much of what we do
here as possible (including maybe even code) to be usable elsewhere
(TeX, KOffice, DocBook, even Word).
My long term goal is still an online repository of CSL files and/or
templates, but certainly not limited to OOo.
Bruce
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