Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!gmr.com!HAMILTON%RCSMPA From: HAMILTON%RCSMPA@gmr.com ("William E. Hamilton, Jr.") Newsgroups: mod.ai Subject: AI Bibliographic format Message-ID: <8612090611.AA11211@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 01:12:16 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612090611.AA11211 Posted: Tue Dec 9 01:12:16 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Dec-86 06:17:37 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 33 Approved: ailist@sri-stripe.arpa 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 -------