>
> Some thoughts about creating styles from the scratch and the
> non-existing editor that facilities this task:
> My *personal* opinion (I'd be happy if someone proves that I'm
> wrong!): CSL is so complex and so rich that an editor to create styles
> from the scratch without knowing some advanced CSL concepts (macros,
> choose, variables, types) cannot be done... or, at least, I don't see
> at the moment how can be done. Again, I may be wrong.
I agree.
Some real world feedback. I taught using the editor today for the first
time. It actually went better than I expected. Instead on running through
hypotheticals, I took a real style request from the Zotero forum and had
them essentially do the whole thing with me around to help.
This was a group of librarians - mostly subject and instructional, not IT
people, most of them with absolutely no programming background, some quite
anxious about the prospect of anything "code". That said, being librarians
they obviously have a very good understanding of citations and using HTML
as a point of reference seemed helpful to most of them - which I don't
think is true for all user groups.
I spent 15mins talking about the general structure of CSL styles and then
explaining briefly how the map onto the
The first step - using the "search by example" took some guidance for
about half of the group. So documentation will need to be good on that.
The remaining touch-ups - things like lowercasing an editor abbreviation or
turning the volume number for journal articles bold - people were able to
do with no help at all on my part. I really think that's the type of stuff
we should be aiming for. And I'm quite happy how well the editor does with
that.
I think it's not that hard to communicate to a pretty large group of users
the basic idea of nested nodes and I feel the bar on the left gives users a
sense of orientation in the style. I'd strongly enourage keeping it as the
default.
Best,
Sebastian
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Sebastian Karcher
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
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