Citation styles

[schnee]

I propose that two new laws be enacted around the world: that those who demand non-standard citation styles be required to provide

1. a justification for deviating from well-known, well-established, well-understood, sensible standards; and
2. a biblatex style implementing said style.

Those who don't comply should be punished by being forced to write

Comments

[thewayne]

The problem is that Word is such a norm for average use! I'm a Mac man, but I refuse to install Office on my kit, instead going for Libre which gives me all the functionality that I need, save database. And every computer in the library that I work at has Windows 7 or 10 (and some 8) and Office.

I used Word from the Dos 1.0 version, and they could have done so much more with it like stealing Word Perfect's Reveal Codes feature so you could actually repair documents rather than blindly trying to find where hidden characters were causing problems.

I keep a copy of Office 2003(?), the last version before their never-sufficiently-cursed ribbon menus ruined anything resembling productivity for me in Office. Before then I did almost nothing with the mouse and everything through Alt menu engagement.

(I really should spend time learning Tex and Emacs)

[schnee]

Heh! Microsoft, copying the good, useful features of other programs? :P