Re: First ever GSL Technical Report (ALFs)

[Mike Marchywka]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:24:53PM -0700, Patrick Alken wrote:
> Thanks Mark,
> 
>   I don't think it is suitable for publication in a journal.
> There is nothing novel here, its just technical details of how
> to calculate ALFs efficiently.

But how should other people cite your work? This is a recurring problem
for me and I have created a developmental tool maybe similar to
Zotero for obtaining bibtex from many random links. When I post
pdf "tech reports", for example,

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mike_Marchywka

I try to include human AND machine readable bibtex.
If you look at any of my recent pdf files there is always a suggsted
version at the end although I'm not sure if Zotero or Toobib
can find that. In the extended information I include 
bibtex info but have not found a well accepted or commonly
used way to do this ( tug.org website in particular does not
seem to have an easy way to cite their works unless you know
about their lookup -table page ) 
Its not hard to do this with latex and I can contribute
the few lines I use to do it if anyone wants it. 

For example, 
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> 
> I'll see if I can fix the formatting issue on eq. 36. Its a
> good idea to cite GSL, I will add that :)
> 
> Patrick
> 
> On 2/16/22 22:51, Mark Galassi wrote:
> > Patrick, this is a great paper.  It shows the same care you apply to 
> > maintaining gsl.  The writing is also very clear, and I love the table of 
> > acronyms :-).  Do you plan to submit for publication in a numerical 
> > analysis journal, or submit to the arXiv?
> > 
> > The only previous quasi-report had been the ongoing design document that I 
> > kept going with James and Brian in the early years, but it is a working 
> > design doc, not anything of the scope you have shown here.
> > 
> > Tiny suggestions: alignment of equation 36 on page 5: "l >= 1" could be 
> > moved quite a bit to the left.  Maybe an extra & to make it match the start 
> > of the l >= 1, m > 0.
> > 
> > You might also want to also cite the reference manual (as we ask people to 
> > do when they use gsl :-) ).  A recent bibtex skeleton on that is the 2019 
> > Network Theory edition.
> > 
> > @book{gslteam2019gnuscientificlibrary,
> >    title={GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual},
> >    author={Galassi, Mark and Davies, Jim and Theiler, James and Gough, 
> > Brian and Jungman, Gerard and Alken, Patrick and Booth, Michael and Rossi, 
> > Fabrice and Ulerich, Rhys},
> >    year={2019},
> >    isbn={9780954612078},
> >    publisher={Network Theory Limited}
> > }
> 

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mike marchywka
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marchywka@hotmail.com
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