From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to cite the Emacs and Calc manuals?
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:09:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874msepk5r.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsifyfuv0.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
On 2014-12-29, at 14:35, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> - what is the author?
>
> Usually the question is "who", but admittedly, the "what" is also an
> interesting question in this case.
Oops. My bad. And I like to think that my English is not bad...
OTOH, given what Calc is, you're right: in this particular case, one
might wonder /what/ Dave Gillespie is. “An alien” is one answer that
comes to mind; personally, I like to think of him as of a robot, in
Asimov's sense, so an entity who's been living (or maybe “functioning”?)
for a few thousand years, and working on Calc for the last five
centuries or so (having predicted – or been told by Hari Seldon – that
at some point, RMS will write Emacs).
;-)
>> It says on the first page: "This manual, also
>> written (mostly) by Dave Gillespie [...]" - so is it "Dave Gillespie"
>> or "Dave Gillespie et al." or what?
>
> I think for Calc, "Dave Gillespie et al." would be fine, yes.
Thanks.
> For the Emacs manual, OTOH, the authorship is a lot more diluted.
> I guess you could opt for "Richard Stallman et al." and there wouldn't
> be too many objections.
>
>> - what is the year of publication? It says on the first page:
>> "Copyright (C) 1990-1991, 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc." -
>> so is it 2013?
>
> Pick the version Emacs whose manual you want to cite, then use the
> release date of that version as the date of publication.
I didn’t think of it – good idea, thanks again!
>> - what is the publisher? I guess FSF, but they don't have it in their
>> dead trees web page shop.
>
> Yes, the publisher is the FSF, regardless if they only publish it
> electronically.
OK.
>> - not to mention the place of publishing (usually it's the name of a
>> city).
>
> You can probably leave this blank. If you really insist on choosing
> a place, Boston would make some kind of sense.
I don’t insist, I was just wondering.
> Stefan
Thanks a lot!
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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2014-12-29 5:04 ` How to cite the Emacs and Calc manuals? Emanuel Berg
2014-12-29 11:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-29 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-29 15:09 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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2015-01-03 2:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-12-27 21:16 Marcin Borkowski
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