On 11/10/05, Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not following you above Dave (the xforms thing has me stumped), I am viewing xforms simply as a means of obtaining either user selection (of styles, content or other relevent choices) in an XML format.
but > there ARE three bits. User experience would be: <snip/> I *think* we are close to viewing the end to end similarly; remember I'm not a citation user in any significant way. Just trying to bring another perspective. > There are a variety of issues here. Does user choose citation style > apart from document template styling? Ask users what they want? Could it be a selection via a 'menu' from a set of options? (or an entry on an X-form) I could imagine a menu item with > the citation styles, for example, so that user just changes with a > change of menu item. In fact, as a user I would prefer that. I'd guess that's the hat you need to put on Bruce, now that you have a working system. What would users prefer? > > Related, you have to understand the larger styling issues here. There > are literally thousands of bibliographic styles out there. Yes, I've seen some. Every > journal and book publisher basically has their own. With the Word > plug-in Endnote, they have an online repository of citation styles that > numbers over 1000, and the user can just download them. But they're > closed binary files. That's where common sense says forget minorities, and look to the pareto (if there is one). What styles will hit a majority, or can you style it 'basically', then make it easy for the fussy user to tweak it to their own niche style? > > We can change this because my style language is XML, and because OD > itself is XML. So while I could imagine downloading a complete OD > template file that defined citation formatting too from some website > (say a publisher's), I could also imagine separately downloading > citation styles (ideally via web service access). If the styling really is, and needs to be, that flexible, how much work would it be to provide a schema and let a user give you an xml specification of the styling? If it's valid to your schema, you could use that to style it? Is that bending over too far backwards? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
