On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Sebastian Karcher <[email protected]> wrote: > What Frank says about delimiters - styles should have as little > punctuation in affixes as possible. In many cases it's possible to do > without entirely. There are some cases where using suffix makes things > significantly easier, though, so I wouldn't want to ban this via > schema - the most frequent case it that titles are followed by a > period no matter what. One _can_ do that with delimiters in most > cases, but it an get rather ugly.
Just to be clear, the idea I was presenting here would never enter the schema or spec. It would instead be used for a) maybe the primer, as a suggestion, and b) for the GUI editor. > About delimiters vs. macros - imho the best styles have a number of > good macros that are then joined with appropriate delimiters in the > bibliography. By "appropriate delimiters" in this context, you really mean prefixes? Or do you mean groups + delimiters with internal macro calls? > Obviously there will also be delimiters in the macros > themselves. See e.g. Harvard 3, which I just re-wrote, for an example > of what I'm thinking. Thanks. Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! 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-d2d _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
