James Howison wrote: > From time to time users are going to want to drop out of the style > defined ways of citing and use the flags themselves (ie I like this > style in general, but I want a comma instead of a semi-colon > separating the Author-Year.)
Hi bibliographers, I just want to note that the above point is a very important one, imho. I know that Bruce tries to use automatic formatting according to a style, and that this facilitates an easy and automatic reformatting of the document. This is fine, but still the user always needs the possibility to opt out of the automatic formatting and do manual corrections on single citation entries (without loosing the connection to the cited work in the bibliographic DB). After all this missing flexibility is one of the fundamental flaws of the current bibliographic facilities and makes it hard to use (if at all). You can see a good solution by looking at the Eclipse IDE. A lot of settings there (compiler settings, the Java runtime to be used, etc.) are set in the "Preferences" in the GUI. But for every project, you have a check box "Use project specific settings", and by clicking on it you get the chance to override certain aspects of the configuration. If the general settings changes, the project specific settings remain unchanged. I really like this, and I would like it if the GUI for the formatting of citation entries worked in a similar way. -- Matthias Basler [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
