I think the name should be as short as reasonably possible. The end user will only see a hyperlink so there isn't really any benefit from namespacing the trac roles.
Though MathSciNet is already an abbreviation, I don't think we need to shorten it further. Certainly not something that could be confused with msn.com ;-) On Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:32:54 PM UTC, Snark wrote: > > Le 24/01/2013 13:15, Fr�d�ric Chapoton a �crit : > > Hello everybody, > > > > What do you think of the idea of adding two new roles (such as the ones > > existing for trac and wikipedia) : > > > > :arxiv:`hep-ph/0206021` > > > > and > > > > :doi:`10.1007/BF02546665` > > > > The idea is to try to have more links in the references, towards the > > outer web, so that one can click to the cited article. > > > > And also to be able, maybe, as a side result, to count how many articles > > from arxiv are cited. > > The basic idea is great, but you propose :arxiv: and :doi:, now someone > proposes :msn: ; perhaps one could also think about :numdam: ... > > Is it possible to have nested roles? I'm thinking about something like > :article:arxiv:`...`, :article:doi:`...`, etc > > That would make it easier to add new types of references, should the > need arise. > > Snark on #sagemath > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
