On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Chris Little <chris...@crosswire.org> wrote: > This is an excellent idea, but I worry about BibTeX being the wrong format > to encourage academic use. I love LaTeX, personally. I just spent a day > putting together a reader for my class in LaTeX. But I'm probably in a > minority here, and outside of math & sciences, I believe almost no one uses > LaTeX. It is a fairly old format, so there are lots of importers for other > software like EndNote.
I hear the limited use of LaTeX is pretty much relegated to graduate school and students. That is, of course, anecdotal information. > > I think keeping BibTeX would be great, but I'd like to encourage us to also > adopt CSL (http://citationstyles.org/), which is used by a few different > programs, including Zotero. > > I'd also recommend we figure out a way to do everything via scripts and > auto-generate BibTeX and CSL entries with a nightly cron job. We can fill > out additional .conf entries, as necessary, to make the automation easier. Rather than forcing the library to maintain memory of multiple formats, maybe a very simple template system? Then the user can specify the output into an arbitrary format and run it through a single method call in the library to output any format they desire. Samples could be maintained with BibTeX, CSL or whatever else people wish to supply? --Greg _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
