On Jan 28, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
On Jan 28, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
I, for example, don't see why we should allow users to change the
delimiter for a citation per James' example above.
Ahem, just to be clear, I mean *locally.* E.g. I don't see why the
global configuration of a style says the citation should be (Doe,
1999), and we have to allow users to be able to have some citations
be (Doe:1999), *and* to remain live and updateable.
*That* is overkill in my view.
So things like comma vs semi-colon would be handled in the style
file, ie if you had a style that was right in all other respects but
wanted to swap comma vs semi-colon you'd be sub-classing the style
for this specific document? I think that's ok, a GUI can hide that
complexity anyway, but does it imply embedding the tweaked style file
in the document (Matthias's 'project specific settings' are
implemented as 'document specific settings')?
Forgive my ignorance, but does CSL currently have the ability to
specify in-text styles? (I'm guessing not, since we're talking about
how to describe the lowest level flags)
Do you imagine the style file specifying 'bundles' of flags or a set
of named formatters? The bibtex approach is named formatters. If
named formatters are used then it's hard to see how one could change
just one of them, but if 'bundles' of flags are used, then maybe it's
pretty easy to allow just one to vary?
--J
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