On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Frank Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote: >> So we've periodically talked about two things: >> >> 1) a higher-level style editing/creation wizard, with one variant relying on >> modifying formatted output to get the appropriate CSL >> >> 2) using existing style data to help us do this >> >> Do we have any actual data that would give us a concrete sense of how >> flexible a UI would need to be? > > There's this: https://bitbucket.org/fbennett/csl-lib/overview > > I haven't touched it in the past year, but the scripts should still > work. The data dumps are idiosyncratic, but if someone wanted to clean > it up, the logic is there.
Cool; thanks. >> I just had in my mind's eye a UI that is a formatted bib, but where one >> could interact with the variable tokens. Just wondering if we have any >> evidence whether that's feasible. >> >> Bruce > > I've spoken with Steve Rideout (IIRC) about the possibility of tagging > output with links or hints that lead back to the portion(s) of CSL > from which it is derived, to allow this kind of reverse-direction > editing. It's a very tough problem due to the complexity of > inheritance and cross-node interaction in much of the formatting > logic. It's a tempting concept, but there would be a risk of finding > in the end that it wouldn't work well enough to be useful. I don't > expect to do anything on it in the foreseeable future myself. What I'm contemplating here is actually simpler, and is a riff on my earlier ideas about a makebst-like wizard interface. So rather than there be some direct mapping of CSL to HTML, there'd just be just be tokens that were tied to a pre-selected list of macro options, where one would just click the token to get the list, click on what looked right, etc. But come to think of it, this may not be any better than my original idea; not sure. Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
