A related idea, perhaps less controverted, might be a frontend for citation styles. Those of us who are required by universities to use particular styles that may differ in one or two details from the readily available styles could perhaps use a little programme for making such adjustments. It could be a series of tick-boxes for things like commas, full stops, italics, parentheses etc. This would output a style readable by programmes like lyx. I know I'd love it if some clever person were to construct such a thing. Not being a programmer, I imagine it would be simple enough to produce, but perhaps I underestimate the task. For the moment, I am looking for Chicago citation style, but haven't come across it yet. In the humanities, especially, styles used vary in rather minor details. I would be great if there was a way to simplify the production of new styles.
Any thoughts on this from the learned technical people out there? Declan
