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
>>
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