On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 11:35:30 AM UTC-5, Thierry (sage-googlesucks@xxx) wrote: > > Hi, > > bikeshedding for bikeshedding: > > - if we decide to centralize everything in a single file (but we should be > aware that a backward move (e.g. for modularization) will require some > work), why not using bibtex (there must be some sphinx interface > somewhere), to that we keep all information with proper fields (might > also be good for pdf rendering) ? > > - regarding the citation link, explicit is better than implicit, avoids > collisions, and is not that verbose: [Milnor1958], [AuthorCoauthor2016], > ... > > At what point do you stop (i.e., how many authors or characters?), and what do you switch to? What about those really long names?
Generally speaking, [AC2016] will very likely not have any collisions and it saves on overall space, which is part of the reasons why we have citations to references (it's a fallacy, but why not just put the full citation in every place, be super explicit?). Best, Travis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
