Re: [dev-biblio] important question

2007-01-28 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Jan 28, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Matthias Basler wrote: James Howison wrote: From time to time users are going to want to drop out of the style defined ways of citing and use the flags themselves (ie I like this style in general, but I want a comma instead of a semi-colon separating the

Re: [dev-biblio] important question

2007-01-28 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Jan 28, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: I, for example, don't see why we should allow users to change the delimiter for a citation per James' example above. Ahem, just to be clear, I mean *locally.* E.g. I don't see why the global configuration of a style says the citation should

Re: [dev-biblio] important question

2007-01-28 Thread James Howison
On Jan 28, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: On Jan 28, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: I, for example, don't see why we should allow users to change the delimiter for a citation per James' example above. Ahem, just to be clear, I mean *locally.* E.g. I don't see why the

Re: [dev-biblio] important question

2007-01-28 Thread Leonard Mada
Bruce D'Arcus wrote: Ahem, just to be clear, I mean *locally.* E.g. I don't see why the global configuration of a style says the citation should be (Doe, 1999), and we have to allow users to be able to have some citations be (Doe:1999), *and* to remain live and updateable. However, IF a user

Re: [dev-biblio] important question

2007-01-28 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Jan 28, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Gannon Dick wrote: As I see it, there are several reasons to keep locale. None are related to computer processing, but rather Library Science. Locale for the source metadata, sure, but I'm still unclear why the citation field itself needs it. Bruce