Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > On Apr 11, 2007, at 3:30 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> From all what I see coming along I'm happy that we will have a >> dedicated >> citation field. This is not due to implementation issues but due to the >> fact that it's always good to have an exact specification about what >> you >> are going to do. > > Yes, although I guess there are trade-offs in the different approaches. > If a field is too specific, then it is probably less likely to be > implemented. If it's too generic, then it might be widely implemented, > but maybe not so consistently. > > My goal, of course, is that whatever gets implemented AND that it's > consistent. > > I wonder if we should have an IRC chat with Svante about this? We're > talking about the metadata field in the SC concall today. You should consider that it is still open for debate whether we should specify all kinds of meta data we consider to be vital for OOo. So at the end you won't win anything by making it "generic".
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