On Tuesday 10 July 2007 18:07, Declan O'Byrne wrote: > 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
Hi Declan, Seems to me the first step is to have you or somebody list every property of a citation style. In other words, in what way to various citation styles differ from each other? In still other words, what values would the college specify? I'd immagine all the things common to all citations would form the "template". This might be a great first step in making the template based style builder tool. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
