On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote: > One caveat - this would apply to spaces and commas (and colons?), but not to > ")" characters. > > On Feb 7, 2012 9:51 AM, "Bruce D'Arcus" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I thought of this idea as potentially helpful for the CSL editor: >> >> Can we establish a generic rule that styles should place >> inter-variable/macro punctuation on prefix attributes, except for the >> very last field in a bibliography (almost always a period), which gets >> added to the cs:bibliography element? >> >> E.g. this: >> >> <text macro="author"> >> <text macro="title" prefix=", "> >> >> .. and not this: >> >> <text macro="author" suffix=", "> >> <text macro="title" suffix=", "> >> >> It strikes me our observation earlier was this results in better >> styles. But it also may provide advantages for the editor approach >> we've discussed here (allows punctuation between macro calls to be >> free text, but the macro calls to be tokens with pop-up select lists).
For robustness, delimiter joins work better than affixes. Where affixes are used, it becomes harder to assure that punctuation/quote swapping will work (it was broken in the Chicago styles, which used affixes; refactoring the style to use delimiters fixed it). >> >> Bruce > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
