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Re: How to cite the Emacs and Calc manuals?
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: How to cite the Emacs and Calc manuals? |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Dec 2014 12:14:58 +0100 |
On 2014-12-29, at 06:04, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> as in the subject. (I want to offer some BSc thesis
>> topics based on Emacs Calc, and I am required by my
>> faculty to give not only the proposed title, but also
>> some literature on the subject.)
>
> Do you cite that differently from other books?
Nope. But:
- what is the author? It says on the first page: "This manual, also
written (mostly) by Dave Gillespie [...]" - so is it "Dave Gillespie"
or "Dave Gillespie et al." or what?
- what is the year of publication? It says on the first page:
"Copyright (C) 1990-1991, 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc." -
so is it 2013?
- what is the publisher? I guess FSF, but they don't have it in their
dead trees web page shop.
- not to mention the place of publishing (usually it's the name of a
city).
So for me, it is not at all clear.
> I know you know Biblatex:
>
> @Book{dyson,
> author = {Peter Dyson},
> title = {The Unix Desk Reference: The hu.man Pages},
> publisher = {SYBEX},
> year = 1996,
> ISBN = {0-7821-1658-2}}
Well, I don't know very much about Biblatex, but an entry like that
would solve my problem, of course. (Personally, I use amsrefs most of
the time.)
> By the way, I think it was gnuplot: the first time you
> use it it outputs an entry just like that how to cite
> it in a paper!
>
> While I think that is a bit silly, software COULD come
> with an option, e.g. --cite so you could output it
> that way (and/or it could be mentioned in the man
> page). Why not? It is easy to do and some people would
> actually use it as well.
+1. At least the manuals (especially huge, well-written manuals like
the Calc's one) could contain information like that.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University