On Thursday 06 July 2006 11:47 pm, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > I wonder if the easy way to do this is to remove all strings from CSL > files, define a list of variables, and allow them to be implemented > natively in software? That way the files are mostly simplified, and > remain self-contained. Doing that, I could also move the prefix and > suffix elements back to attributes, since they don't have to carry any > formatting information. Files become more compact, and any possible > future OO code is simpler (prefix and suffix become simple attributes > of an object, rather than full objects). >So thinking not in XML, but rather YAML ... snip ... > > I hadn't done this earlier because I thought it wasn't possible, but > maybe I'm wrong. > > Would that work? I think it would. It looks neat and is simpler to manage than my idea of the using macro processing to achieve the same thing
The tables of english->'other language' strings could easily be added to list of task the international language translators need to work on. david > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
