[boost] Re: Bibliography update (patch)

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-16 08:06:38

"Fredrik Blomqvist" <fredrik_blomqvist_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
> [snip]
>> Suggestions:
>>
>> a. in citation symbols, leave out all spaces.  Otherwise it tends to
>> wrap like this:
>>
>>   [Maddock-Cleary
>>   00]
>>   [Maddock
>>   01]
>>   [Siek-Lumsdaine
>>   01]
>>   [Siek-Lee-
>>   Lumsdaine 02]
>>
> Yeah, I've noticed this.. I basically followed suit based on the previous
> entries though. But I agree and am willing to make the change. I hope we're
> not missing some rationale Beman or someone else had for that format
> though(?). I assume we should change the tags from "Name_03" to "Name03"
> format also then?

Yeah.  And remove the hyphens between names.

>> b. Give me your SF username so I can give you CVS access to do this
>> yourself.
> Ok. See private mail.
>
>> c. I'm not sure we should be spelling out the links to web
>> publications.  I know it's formally correct, but it causes a great
>> deal of clutter.  We could just link the article titles, for example.
>>
> The original motivation according to Beman was to enable printing the page
> with preserved link info. Don't know how strongly people feel about that
> feature though. I'd say we leave it as-is for this version.

OK.

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Dave Abrahams
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