On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Frank Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Bumping this with an update; a head's up for implementors:
>>
>> So this issue is actually a bit broader than just the delimiters, and
>> is almost surely to result in a significant change in 1.0.1.
>>
>> In particular, as I say on the ticket, I think we need add an explicit
>> notion of author grouping to the spec, to define grouping behavior as
>> default, and to add some new attribute to optionally turn it off.
>>
>> This is likely to have little-to-no impact on styles, but some impact
>> on the test suite and related implementation code.
>
> This would change output significantly without any change to styles.
> Are you sure that's a good idea?

Here's what I think the situation is:

There's a fundamental bug in the spec that only gets exposed under
certain circumstances that are not all that common.

So I think the change is unlikely to lead to widespread problems, but
will reduce the sort of bug reports we've seen over the last week.

This is WRT to author-date styles. I need to think more about the
implications for note styles. If they don't typically include sorting
instructions, then obviously it's not a problem.

Bruce

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