Broder, John M., and Ian Urbina. “All Eyes Turn
> to Virginia Senate Race.”
The New York Times, November 9, 2006, sec.
> /.
http://hostname/url.
> -----------------
>
> Note the final "." in the href -- this is a bug in the citeproc-js
> citation engine (I think).
>
> So, I would like to do some postprocessing and just remove the final ".".
> But it's not obvious to me how to do that. I feel like it should be! And
> that for an editor, emacs makes it awfully hard to match patterns & edit
> strings. But I think that's partly because I simply understand lisp so
> poorly.
>
> If someone could show me how to do this, nad somehow along hte way make me
> understand hte basic principles involved so I can start to teach myself
> better... well, I would appreciate it.
>
> thanks again,
> Matt
>