On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:00:34PM -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Matt Price wrote: > > >Also very nice to have the "Functional Requirements" page up. I wonder > >though whether it might not be a good idea to start prioritizing all > >these tasks. > > I agree. I think we need to first clean up the formatting, and then > work at streamlining everything.
I'll try to contribute > > >Would (5) and (6), which Bruce calls "a separate chunk of code that > >would use the UNO interface", be a logical next step after CPH does > >104? What form do folks think it should take? > > My interest in porting citeproc to other languages is to prototype > this, and gain the experience we need to figure out how best to do > this. > can you expand on this? e.g. would it be helpful if I tried to work up a python port (this will happen relativley slowly till at least the end of May though)? > >Alternatively, would it make most sense to design the bibliographic > >database next -- since there are so few C coders here, but many people > >with some database experience? > > Yes, I think so. David and I have talked about this a bit off-list, and > I have an early version of an SQL schema up here: > > <http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/xbiblio/bib-sql/> > > Feel free to post comments about it here, or otherwise help. > I'll certainly look. > Yes. Well, CPH did ask for help with the user list, which is pretty > much non-technical. So that's a perfect opportunity for non-coders to > help. > > But beyond that, I think focusing on the data model and formatting code > (including helping me make sure CSL is everything it should be*) is a > good place to being for those of us without C++ skills (which is almost > everyone on this list!). > > Bruce > > * I still may create a proposal to bake the logic of CSL directly into > ODF, so all the more important. it's definitely nice to see it looking as though we might actually get some citation functionality in the forseeable futre! I look forward to being able to reocmmend OOo wholeheartedly to my colleagues. I just wish we could have this done in time for the next MSOffice -- seems likethe perfect opportunity to get folks to switch. Matt > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
