Re: Citation syntax: a revised proposal

[tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

>  What Org desperately needs in terms of
> reproducible, scientific writing is a rigorous, standard syntax.

IMHO, the citation syntax discussion is more about making citations work
correctly in the various backends and less about reproducible documents.
Babel was a key development for reproducible documents.  With babel,
"non-standard" functions could be stuffed in a noexport section, made
buffer local with Emacs local variables, and distributed so others can
reproduce the document.

This model has a certain beauty.  A community of scholars can share
reproducible documents and concentrate on the content without having to
agree upon and use a standard syntax for document preparation.

Or, a sub-community of scholars, like the Kitchin research group, can
adopt a package built on top of extensible syntax, then distribute their
work in reproducible form to scholars in the larger community.

At any rate, I'm just reacting to "desperately needs" and "rigorous,
standard".

I think Samuel's ideas on extensible syntax are compatible with
reproducible scientific writing.

All the best,
Tom

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