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• Really interesting stuff. I'm not a serious programmer, but I have an idea what this is about. Would you like feedback on the legal categories included in the OWL documentation?

  in Bluebook law-review Comment by fbennett December 10, 2008
• The Semantic Relations document suggests one relation useful for procedural history: # reverses (legal only?) I'm not sure whether relations will be shared between references (i.e. an index pointer accessible from either end), or be one-way referenc…

  in Bluebook law-review Comment by fbennett December 10, 2008
• It would be sweet if an initial reference to a judgment could slurp in the entire subsequent history known to Zotero ...Ah. I've found the Semantic Relations design document, and see that you're already thinking about this.

  in Bluebook law-review Comment by fbennett December 10, 2008
• Quite right, that multilingual support is not specific to Bluebook. I've found some of the other threads now, I'm only beginning to catch on to the scope of the community you have going here. Thanks for the link. The discussion in that thread tal…

  in Bluebook law-review Comment by fbennett December 10, 2008
• The proposed scheme should work for Japanese, but I would request that the multilingual layers be applied to author, translator, and editor names as well, because the phonetic readings of the Chinese characters in Japanese names vary, and are normal…

  in Multiple versions of a field in a record Comment by fbennett December 10, 2008
• Okay, I've done some rattling around in the code, and I think I have a grip on the basics. One thing we're going to want to do is to extend this to handle multiple jurisdictions. It looks like doing that the right way may require some extension of…

  in Bluebook law-review Comment by fbennett December 10, 2008
• In a past life, I worked up a regular expression and supporting code to parse Lexis "headers" for secondary materials. It was written for a completely different environment (Plone/Zope), but the core regular expressions and parsing code are in Pyth…

  in Lexis support? Comment by fbennett December 10, 2008
• Thanks. I'll study up.

  in Bluebook law-review Comment by fbennett December 8, 2008
• Hello. I have done a bit of programming in the past (including attempts, long ago, to automate Blue Book citations and cross references in LaTeX), and currently I teach and supervise students who use the Blue Book style. Improved Zotero support fo…

  in Bluebook law-review Comment by fbennett December 3, 2008
• Aha. Found the list of citation modules. All set now.

  in Bluebook law-review Comment by fbennett October 13, 2008
• Is there a timetable for merging the Bluebook code to the OpenOffice extension?

  in Bluebook law-review Comment by fbennett October 11, 2008