A comment and a question on reading the functional requirements wiki page (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoBib_Functional_Requirements ):
comment: seems to me that it might be a good idea to start some of the actual deletion/consolidation suggested by Bruce or others. WHile fairly exhaustive, the document is currently pretty hard to follow and very long. Question: bruce you make the following comment in that page: bruce: We need to decide this issue ASAP; does formatting get generated from an embedded XML file, or from elsewhere? If the former, the bib data should be ALWAYS embedded (which would be my preference). my question: what is lost when info is embedded rather than fetched? I suppose it's the cpaacity to make durable changes to the source database from which the information is drawn. Ideally one would have a "sync changes to bibliography" function within the biblio gui. But this does open up something of a can of worms. I don't see any other downside, except a somewhat larger file. The other option -- allowing non-embedded bibliographic data -- seems to me unacceptable. What happens when I'm on my laptop at another university and suddenly can't log in to my research group's Refbase installation, for instance? I want to print out, but I'm screwed! SO the main issue would be to identify downsides & figure out workarounds. Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
