Hi Morten, On 4 November 2009 at 16:18, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: | Charles Plessy wrote: | | > In the discussion that followed, we talked about where to store this | > information, and in which format, since adding more content to the | > debian/control file is not an easy thing (it ‘costs’ a lot because it goes to | > pivotal files like the Packages.gz files on our mirrors). A four line summary | > is available here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/References | | I can't remember seeing this discussion, but in some of my packages, I've | put a file debian/citation.bib, which is installed in the | /usr/share/doc/<package>/ directory.
Nice idea. | This enables the user to easily import the citation into a bibliographic | database, and the .bib format is a de-facto standard. Of course the various | Debian tools can parse the file too. | | This approach is of course not the only one, but it has the merit of being | simple. As one possibility for going one step further, consider what R supports (but not requires). If any of the add-on package CRAN has a CITIATION file, then the citation() function can be used to pretty-print the content, incl a Bibtex snippet, by giving the R package name as argument: e...@ron:~/src/debian/CRAN> r -e'print(citation(package="zoo"))' To cite zoo in publications use: Achim Zeileis and Gabor Grothendieck (2005). zoo: S3 Infrastructure for Regular and Irregular Time Series. Journal of Statistical Software, 14(6), 1-27. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v14/i06/ A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Article{, title = {zoo: S3 Infrastructure for Regular and Irregular Time Series}, author = {Achim Zeileis and Gabor Grothendieck}, journal = {Journal of Statistical Software}, year = {2005}, volume = {14}, number = {6}, pages = {1--27}, url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v14/i06/}, } e...@ron:~/src/debian/CRAN> We could easily cook-up something similar with a structure input file and a simple display wrapper that could go into a debian-science utils package. Cheers, Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
