On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2...@reagle.org> wrote:
> On 07/28/2015 06:02 AM, Sebastian Karcher wrote: > > 1. We still wouldn't be able to get anywhere close to what APA wants, > > including for things like Video Recording where different labels > > might be adequate depending on the nature of the recording, so using > > genre is more reliable. > > But do you see the downside of loading up bibliography data with APA > specific strings? I think that's a big problem: I can't use my data with > other styles. > I see the downside, but most other styles use the genre field much less if at all, so it's a smaller problem than you make it out to be. E.g. the Chicago styles use Genre very sparingly, mainly for theses and reports. > > > 2. APA is one of the most frequently used styles across locales. By > > hardcoding English terms, we'd completely break localization. > > > > The second of these could be addressed by allowing a significantly > > higher number of terms (which would also help with MLA localization), > > but the first one still remains, so I'm not sure to what degree I'd > > want to change the style even once we have the requisite terms. > > CSL can't can't localize such strings? > it can't currently, but even if we had all the strings (which would be technically easy, if demanding on translations), we'd have to have a way to actually call those terms, which -- since APA is very fond of putting very specific details in square brackets -- I don't really see how we can do. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > -- Sebastian Karcher, PhD Department of Political Science Northwestern University
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