The docstring standard at
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines#docstring-standard
suggests a citation reference format that is not compatible
with reStructuredText. Quoting from
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#citations:
Citations are identical to footnotes except that they use
only non-numeric labels such as [note] or [GVR2001].
In other words, the standard currently promotes a conflation of
notes and citations.
Another reason for avoiding the style currently in the docstring
standard is that it renders impossible the generation of citations
using a citation database. (See e.g. the bibtext-like facilities offered
by bibstuff's bib4txt (http://code.google.com/p/bibstuff/).
Alan Isaac
_______________________________________________
Numpy-discussion mailing list
[email protected]
http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
