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From: HAMILTON%RCSMPA@gmr.com ("William E. Hamilton, Jr.")
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Subject: AI Bibliographic format
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Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 01:12:16 EST
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I emphatically agree with the following comment from Robert Amsler:

>Date: Wed, 3 Dec 86 16:08:08 est
>From: amsler@flash.bellcore.com (Robert Amsler)
>Subject: AI Bibliographic format

>Can something be done to minimize the idiosyncratic special character
>usage in the bibliographies? I don't mind a format with tagged fields,
>but one only designed to be read by one particular text formatting system
>is a bit much for human readership. Is it really necessary to encode
>font changes as something as odd as \s-1...\s0 and I don't even know
>how to read entries such as the last one for the chapters in the
>Grishman and Kittridge Sublanguage book.

(An example of a strangely formatted bibliographic entry follows)...

>Huh!!!

For those of us who don't know how to interpret the bibiographic
entries, why not circulate a specification for interpreting them, or
tell us where we can get the text formatting software
Amsler mentions. If this formatter is another piece of unix
esoterica, are there versions which work under vms?

Bill Hamilton
GM Research Labs
Computer Science Dept
313 986 1474

hamilton@gmr.com


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