On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Robert Knight <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does Zotero allow people to share a Word/OO document which uses a custom >> style between different machines and users easily? > > Giving all created styles an ID which doubles as a URL from which the > style can be fetched, so they could > work in the same way as existing styles and be automatically > downloaded by clients if necessary, seems like > the obvious option. The 1-click install can just be a link to this > URL - possibly converted to a tool-appropriate > link (Mendeley registers itself as a handler for mendeley:// links and > I believe Zotero and Papers both have a similar facility). > > So for the style ID/URL, something like: > http://citationstyles.org/styles/<prefix>/<style name> > > Where <prefix> is some prefix assigned to all styles created with the > tool and <style name> is > some name assigned by the user (from an alphabetic limited to letters, > numbers and hyphens).
On first glance, I like this. > The main question then is whether/how to handle updates and > authentication. Authentication? You mean to create and submit styles? Bruce > Zotero and Mendeley both > have online accounts that could be used as identities for this purpose > and I presumably Papers must have one for Livfe as well. > > Regards, > Rob. > > On 30 March 2012 18:00, Sebastian Karcher <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Steve Ridout <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Does Zotero allow people to share a Word/OO document which uses a custom >>> style between different machines and users easily? I know that Mendeley >>> doesn't at the moment. >> >> neither does Zotero. >> >> -------- >> Sebastian Karcher >> Ph.D. Candidate >> Department of Political Science >> Northwestern University >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF email is sponsosred by: >> Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure >> _______________________________________________ >> xbiblio-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
