- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:26:47 +0200
On Jan 3, 2007, at 22:12, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
>> I'll be more convinced about "tools will save us" once I first see
>> that working on a smaller scale than the Web. Let's say TeXlipse with
>> the described UI generating BibTeX entries and inserting the proper
>> \cite{} on the LaTeX side.
>
> I'm baffled by this. I don't know enough about Tex or TeXlipse to
> understand why you think this would be a helpful test of the
> interface.
> I'm not even sure how it would apply to the Tex world. As far as I can
> see, it's like asking for an implementation of anchor links in
> TeXlipse.
> Might you elaborate on why this would be a better proof of concept
> than
> a Firefox extension?
My point was that BibTeX/LaTeX/TeXlipse users are already receptive
to the idea that they have to provide rich metadata for citations, so
a UI test would not be a matter of testing *if* they provide the data
but about *how* they like to provide it.
--
Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
Received on Friday, 19 January 2007 04:26:47 UTC