> 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. OK, that's important. I haven't thought hard enough about the GUI editor, but for the primer I'm with Frank - if we give coding advice/conventions in the primer they should be to avoid punctuation (and with a couple of exceptions such as date-parts - spacing) in affixes altogether and use groups and delimiters instead. Having punctuation only in prefixes is preferable to having the mix of prefixes and suffixes, doubling up punctuation etc. that many existing styles have, so I understand what you're saying, but it still has a lot of issues with optional fields and will make code needlessly messy as opposed to clean grouping and delimiters.
>> 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? The latter - I try to avoid affixes in the bibliography section altogether. -- ------ Sebastian Karcher Ph.D. Candidate Department of Political Science Northwestern University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
