On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:36, Robert Knight <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Charles, > > Thanks for your work on this. I do wonder whether it makes sense to > have quite so many dependent styles in the repository though. > I have been wondering if it would make sense to 'push' users and > publications to use well known existing styles more. BMC is a great example of that: I was impressed all their journals follow the same guidelines. Unfortunately, no other publisher has such a systematically consistent format for references. As for the users: one Papers user asked for the style for Malaria Journal. Should I have told him to use 'BMC informatics'. And tell the same to every user that ask? I don't think we should put the burden of figuring out which style to use I the user. Their goal is to write a paper, not to spend time figuring out why a colon is used, instead of a period in the references. In fact, nobody should care about this, but publishers do, unfortunately, for some weird reasons. So it's not just a number battle with EndNote, it's a usability issue. It really makes the user's life better if the style for the journal they want is right there. I think. Charles > >> I'll have to bite the bullet at some point, though, I agree! > > Less painful that dealing with problems arising if your users download > styles with bugs that would be caught by a validator though. > > Regards, > Rob. > > On 30 June 2012 23:50, Charles Parnot <[email protected]> wrote: >> Go figure: writing a script to create those styles sounded like fun, but >> somehow installing a validator makes me want to run away ;-) >> >> I'll have to bite the bullet at some point, though, I agree! >> >> charles >> >> On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: >> >>> Awesome! >>> >>> On this ... >>> >>>> Only issue is I don't have a good way to systematically validate the >>>> style, as I typically use the web interface. >>> >>> Time to install a local validator, and write a trivial batch script! >>> >>> If you're using brew on your Mac, just do 'brew install rnv` to get >>> going. Or compile it yourself. >>> >>> http://www.davidashen.net/rnv.html >>> >>> MUCH faster and more flexible than a web service. >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Live Security Virtual Conference >>> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >>> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions >>> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware >>> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xbiblio-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel >> >> -- >> Charles Parnot >> [email protected] >> twitter: @cparnot >> http://mekentosj.com >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Live Security Virtual Conference >> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions >> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware >> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ >> _______________________________________________ >> xbiblio-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
