From: David <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: bibl-apa.tex wrong?
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 08:16:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080527081657297926.1203d790@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483BAC09.9010504@elvenkind.com>
On Tue, 27 May 2008 08:36:57 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Matej Baric( wrote:
>> Hello,
>> This (http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm) and
>> just about any other site I look at specifies publisher info as
>> "<city, state>: <publisher name>", whereas bibl-apa.tex specifies it
>> as "<publisher name>, <city, state>".
>> Why is the file called bibl-apa.tex if it doesn't follow APA rules? Am
>> I missing something
>
> Originally (years ago already), I reverse-engineered apalike from
> latex. It is quite possible I made a error there (or even that
> apalike had it wrong) but if no-one reports a bug it is not noticed.
>
> Also, I've had quite a few incorrect bug reports about the styles, so
> I am no longer all that eager to change them at a single bug report.
> Two questions: do you have a definitive source somewhere? and are
> there any other problems you see in bibl-apa.tex?
I've never used bibl-apa, but my wife has a copy of the official APA
style book. I will check this point (carefully!) today or tomorrow, and
respond again when I have the info.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-26 21:52 Matej Barič
2008-05-27 6:36 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-05-27 14:05 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-05-27 15:16 ` David [this message]
2008-05-27 17:36 ` David
2008-05-28 8:14 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-06-12 8:51 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-05-27 11:44 Matej Barič
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