On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Frank Bennett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Working on the MLZ suite of legal styles, I've been trying to figure
>> out a reasonably clean way to handle discretionary locator joins. For
>> example, a style might require something like this where the pinpoint
>> (23) is a paragraph:
>>
>> Smith v Jones (2010) 1 All ER 100 [23]
>>
>> But something like this where it is a page number:
>>
>> Doe v Roe (1950) 1 All ER 100, 23
>>
>> These discretionary joins are common, and they are very awkward to
>> handle with proper use of delimiter joins.
>
>
> Aren't locators about the only type of content where it's always safe to use
> prefixes instead of delimiters? A lone locator isn't of any use, and to be
> useful must always be preceded by a non-empty cite.

Using prefixes, you still need two separate macros (one with prefix A,
the other with prefix B), each wrapped in a different conditional. You
can reduce the problem to a single conditional if cs:text is used to
place a single comma in output, but that's still pretty messy, and if
quote-swapping is needed it will break, because the comma is in the
body of a node.



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