id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,cpu,platform 947,g.version: new flag for citation info,hamish,grass-dev@…,"Hi, it is proposed to add a new flag to print out ""how to cite grass"" information. doing this in g.version means that the info would always be up to date and relevant for the software used. the obvious choices for flag key -c (cite) -r (ref) -b (biblio) are already taken, so I propose -x for ""cross-ref"". {{{ cite_flag = G_define_flag(); cite_flag->key = 'x'; cite_flag->description = _(""Display information on how to cite this software""); }}} the text is currently at: http://grass.osgeo.org/download/ {{{ Citing GRASS Software Please cite GRASS when using the software in your work. Here are some choices depending on the version used: * GRASS Development Team, 2010. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 6.4.0. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. http://grass.osgeo.org * GRASS Development Team, 2009. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/ A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Manual{GRASS_GIS_software, title = {Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) Software}, author = {{GRASS Development Team}}, organization = {Open Source Geospatial Foundation}, address = {USA}, year = {2010}, url = {http://grass.osgeo.org}, } }}} Of course the version and date, etc should be dynamically filled in by the program. see also http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Documents#General http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Citation_Repository http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Citations_for_specific_modules thanks, Hamish ",enhancement,closed,major,7.2.0,Default,svn-trunk,fixed,"g.version, citation",neteler,All,All