I just downloaded the last nightly, and ... to my great joy the new
addition to the autogeneration syntax is already working!
Thank you so very much, Christiaan, for finding a solution and immediately
implementing it.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Jan David Hauck <jan.d.ha...@ucla.edu>
wrote:
> That would be more than awesome! :)
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I may have a better solution. Add the number at the end of the metal
>> optional argument,
>>
>> *%a**[,][etal1]20*
>>
>> The problem would be when someone would have used numbers art the end of
>> "et al." itself, but I think that won’t happen.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>> On 11 Jul 2018, at 17:39, Jan David Hauck <jan.d.ha...@ucla.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, I thought about that.
>> But might it not be feasible to add it as an additional option?
>> For example, I could think of a set of optional third (or, for %A%P,
>> fourth) brackets with a number, with the meaning
>> "max number of authors if etal is present"
>> *%a[,][etal][1]20*
>> *%A[,][,][etal][1]20*
>>
>> This wouldn't interfere with how people currently construct their format
>> (with the sole exception if there was someone who needs a literal
>> "[number]" after that expression and hasn't escaped it with "\["
>> *%a[,][etal][1]...*
>> which is highly unlikely.
>>
>> Maybe I'm the only one who would appreciate that, but I could see that a
>> lot of us who work in fields that use author-date citation styles such as
>> Chicago, APA, etc. would find really helpful and more intuitive, as we
>> could construct citekeys for two-author-works that would be specific on the
>> second author but without having to deal with unnecessarily long keys
>> firstauthor,second,etal_1990 for works by three or more authors.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:11 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am sorry, we can not support this. It would not be backwards
>>> compatible, current formats would not automagically conform themselves.
>>>
>>> Christiaan
>>>
>>
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