But delimiter joins could be folded into the macros; right?
On Feb 7, 2012 10:53 AM, "Frank Bennett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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