On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:25:34PM -0600, Christopher M. Jones wrote: This is why I like Chicago: distinguish between full references > in bib and in footnotes.
Amen. Chicago Style tries to make the work as readable as possible, which is why I also like it. I don't think I was clear in stating this in my earlier email. Parenthetical references (which Chicago Style recommends above all other), integrate the information right in to the text, rather than stick it back a hundred pages. For example: As Michael Goosens points out in his book *Latex Graphics Companion,* you can use different types of graphics in Latex (85). The "(85)" refers to the page number. If you really want to track down this source, then you go to the endnotes and get the Publisher of the book, and other relevant information. But most readers won't have to, so they simply continue reading without interruption. > > The only bst (I have not looked much) that seems to do something like this is > Jurabib. [snip] My dream is still a fully functional Chicago style, which achicago > promised to be. But work on that seems to have stopped quite a while ago. > > This is my next summer project: learn how to write a bst and complementary > sty. (=buy a copy of Lamport), write a fully functional (hahaha) chicago > style in a couple of months (hahahaha). Hey, you are stealing my project! I wanted to do something exactly along these lines, even though I am brand new to Lyx/Latex. (As if I will find time!) But I *do* think an integrated chicago style would make Lyx/Latex more popular amongst non-technical people. For example, I had the dream of redeeming old computers by putting Linux on them, using a small windows manager like black box, and using Lyx as the word documents processor. I know several grad students who would love something like that. But if chicago style is really hard to use, I can see these same grad students saying "Linux is too hard! Lyx is too hard!" Have you tried the mla package, available at CTAN? I just came across it. The only documentation for it is in the %%comments in package itself. Just wondering. Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* ************************
