On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Sebastian Karcher
<[email protected]> wrote:
> What Frank says about delimiters - styles should have as little
> punctuation in affixes as possible. In many cases it's possible to do
> without entirely. There are some cases where using suffix makes things
> significantly easier, though, so I wouldn't want to ban this via
> schema - the most frequent case it that titles are followed by a
> period no matter what. One _can_  do that with delimiters in most
> cases, but it an get rather ugly.

Just to be clear, the idea I was presenting here would never enter the
schema or spec. It would instead be used for a) maybe the primer, as a
suggestion, and b) for the GUI editor.

> About delimiters vs. macros - imho the best styles have a number of
> good macros that are then joined with appropriate delimiters in the
> bibliography.

By "appropriate delimiters" in this context, you really mean prefixes?
Or do you mean groups + delimiters with internal macro calls?

> Obviously there will also be delimiters in the macros
> themselves. See e.g. Harvard 3, which I just re-wrote, for an example
> of what I'm thinking.

Thanks.

Bruce

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