I would say it makes sense to make an English option for APA and Vancouver, which are used in many dependent styles. There are only 5 dependent journal styles for Chicago.
We know from questions/complaints about specific terms on the forum that those styles are actually used quite a bit by international users in their localized versions, so I'd very much keep the regular version without a default locale. Agree with Rintze that it would be good if users could tell (w/o opening the style code) which styles localize and which don't. Sebastian On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > 1) we should decide which styles we want to keep without a >> > default-locale (I >> > guess this will be mostly the most popular style guides, like APA, >> > Vancouver, CMoS, some Harvard variant, etc.) >> >> Popularity may be one criteria. But another might be whether it's a >> dependent style, or it has dependent styles linked to it? >> >> E.g. the significance of the styles you list are in part they're >> widely used on their own, but also that there's a lot of (probably >> journal-specific?) styles that link to them. > > > Agreed (e.g. Vancouver is used by many US journals, so it probably should > have an "en-US" default-locale). Most of these popular styles currently lack > a default-locale though. Other options: > > - lobby with CSL implementations for an easy override of default-locale > - create two versions of styles like Vancouver, an US English one and a > localizing international one. > - forgo the idea of automatically localizing styles altogether > > Rintze > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA(R) Conference 2012 > Mar 27 - Feb 2 > Save $400 by Jan. 27 > Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > -- ------ Sebastian Karcher Ph.D. Candidate Department of Political Science Northwestern University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
