I completely agree with those who said that if you're starting this, you have real decision power. And a pdf output would be just fine for casual readers.
I suppose the only alternative that I might suggest is looking into what wiki tools are available to us. A wiki page would be friendlier for cross-contributions and may also provide space for commenting (discussion tab?). It also probably has a good citation mechanism. But then, I'm not familiar with the wiki that Apache uses... and I maybe don't have a 100% clear idea of what you have in mind that would require the use of LaTex, so cavaets abound. jamesG -----Original Message----- From: "Patricia Shanahan" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 1:52pm To: [email protected] Subject: Bibliography format question My next step on the distributed, fault tolerant transaction management issue will be to wrote an annotated bibliography. Designing and proving correctness of protocols and algorithms in this area is not easy, so it is worth some reading and library search time to make sure we benefit from all available research. Is there is preferred way of doing this? Left to myself, I would use BibTex for the references, and write the notes in LaTex. Is anyone else likely to want to edit the document? If so, what are their opinions about the document and bibliography format? Is there an Apache way of doing something like this? Regardless of the source format, the document will be available as a .pdf file, so anyone can use it. Patricia
