The legal styles we're building on CitationStylist will need to share a lot of code, since citation forms are jurisdiction-specific. This looked like becoming a maintenance headache, so I spent the better part of yesterday building a Python script to populate self-contained macro sets from a "home" style to others that depend on it. It's worked out pretty well, so this afternoon I did some more work to generalize the script. It's now available here:
https://bitbucket.org/fbennett/cslmodules A README in the repo explains how it works, but basically you set up a config file for each style that has dependencies, indicating the names of the code bundles it needs and the style that contains each one. The script will then check for a <name>-bundle-start macro in both the receiving and the source style, and if both are found, it will grab all macros ultimately called through the <name>-bundle-start macro and move them across. To allow small variations in formatting, macros that don't change apart from a small list of "cosmetic" attributes are not overwritten. The script might be useful for sharing code within a family of styles, or for self-contained citation types (patent?) that might be shared more widely. Hope it's useful. Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
