Re: [Refdb-devel] latex bibliographies with multiple databases

[David N. <dav...@sw...>]

Damien Jade Duff wrote:
>> all-caps, and mixed case output.
>>     
> The latter is fine except, as before, when your article title 
> capitalises verbs and improper nouns. I'm happy to do it this way 
> though, I'll just make sure no capitalised verbs and improper nouns get 
> into my database and hope not to encounter citation styles that require 
> them.

This has been bothering me. If the default model for encoding is:

XML LaTeX
| |
| |
INPUT unicode unicode
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
v
STORAGE unicode
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
OUTPUT convert convert
| |
| |
v v
XML LaTeX


There will undoubtedly be users like Damien who make the choice to 
include markup in their bibliographic data. Although it effectively 
traps them into one output format the trade-off is greater control over 
how that data is eventually displayed.

Would not it be simple, given the above model, to have a command line 
switch for runbib and refdbib that skips the conversion step? That seems 
to me an easy way to accommodate the wishes of everybody.

Regards,
David.