[sword-devel] Bibtex for modules

Trevor Jenkins trevor.jenkins at suneidesis.com
Tue Jan 11 16:19:59 MST 2011


On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:

> > While I'd have no quibble with bibliographic data being recorded in .conf
> > files it should be there in a neutral form and specific functions written
> > to produce it in the users required/requested format.
>
> Alternatively every desired format could be stored in the .conf file.

No no no. That way leaves to inconsistencies and corruption. Apply 3NF and
4NF normalisation to this data. If the bibliographic data is to be there
put it there only once and then have some API layer to extract and present
it in what ever format the user needs.

Regards, Trevor

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