Hello,
The CSL editor project is getting very close to finishing now. As such, the
current features won't change much now within this specific
Mendeley/Columbia project. You can try it here:
http://steveridout.com/csl/about/
I'm pretty happy with how it's gone, people are using it to create actual
styles and I think it's a lot more inviting to newcomers than editing XML.
At the same time there are a lot of ideas which couldn't be done due to
lack of time. Some of these are 'risky' ideas where it's hard to know how
well they'll work before building some prototypes. e.g. a wizard to build
an initial style template, and a searchable database of all the macros in
the repo to use as building blocks. Before wrapping up I'll write up a
summary future work suggestions.
# Integrating with reference managers
Mendeley have started work on integrating the editor to make the workflow
nicer for their users. I'd like to invite other devs to take a look at the
documentation I've started putting on github:
https://github.com/citation-style-editor/csl-editor/wiki
This is still WIP, and before finishing I will add more documentation to
the source code too. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you want help
understanding, or if you think anything should be changed.
# Future Maintenence
Currently the code is split into two repositories on github:
https://github.com/citation-style-editor/csl-editor - this is the core
cslEditorLib library, with no code specific to one reference manager
https://github.com/citation-style-editor/csl-editor-demo-site - this is my
reference implementation, which different implementors can fork and add
their own customizations to integrate with their reference managers if they
wish. It contains cslEditorLib as a git submodule.
Splitting it like this means everyone can benefit from improvements to the
core cslEditorLib repository.
# My situation
I've got about 70 hours of contracted work left on this, which I'll stretch
out over the next three weeks. After that I'll continue to do a bit in my
free time to help maintain it, and will keep my hosted version of the site
up for as long as it's useful and not too much of a burden, or until it
gets superseded by another ref-manager agnostic version.
Steve
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