On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Franziska Heimburger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have come to source people's ideas for a 'codesprint' I have suggested for > next week's THATCamp Paris. The potted description in French is here > http://barcamp.org/w/page/54813952/Codesprint%20et%20Booksprint%2027-28%20septembre%20%28cliquer%20ici%29 > , but the general idea is to explain the basics of csl style language and > then see how many styles we can turn out for French humanities and social > sciences. This takes up the initiative explained here > http://www.boiteaoutils.info/p/csl-france-styles-pour-zotero.html and hosted > here https://trello.com/board/csl-france/4e8f4ee92adc2a00009616d3 which > never really took off. > > I originally suggested this a long time ago and then started wondering > whether it was still a good idea when I saw the progress that had been made > on the visual style editor. In the end I decided to maintain the codesprint, > including actual code, because I reckon with the fairly tech-literate public > at the THATCamp it makes sense and it would be an excellent opportunity to > get more good French styles into the repository.
That makes sense. Hand coding for people confortable will yield better styles. Great idea, BTW! More below .... > So far my plan is to assemble links to all the available documentation on > the page mentioned above with the necessary explanations in French, to start > the codesprint with a walk-through of adapting an existing style (located > using the visual editor tool), while explaining the structure of csl-styles. > I may well produce a very basic style with in-line comments in French > explaining what happens at each point. > > So, this is where my questions come in : > > has anyone ever held a similar initiative - and have any useful hints to > share? > What guidelines for good csl-practice would you want to teach a bunch of > beginners? I only have one, two-part, suggestion here: 1) good styles exploit macros heavily to avoid duplication; you can see evidence of this by the relative percentage of code dedicated to macros vs. the citation and bibliography templates. 2) use an example style that is well-written to demonstrate. Rintze and Sebastian may have good suggestions, but I tend to think a widely used style like APA or Chicago is a good bet. Bruce > finally, more specifically, when writing French styles, I got used to > including codes like   for non-breaking spaces and è for รจ - in > good part because I got tired of people opening/saving styles on different > operating systems and breaking accented character encodings. I remember that > being discouraged at some point on this list. What are people's opinions on > this? > > I'd be very grateful for any advice you might have. > Thanks in advance, > Franziska Heimburger > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
