Re: Citation syntax and ODT

[Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 24 February 2015 08:56 AM, Alexis wrote:
> For examle, one might have a citation style like:
>
> [Smith 2001]
>
> which in certain contexts is expected to have a presentation style of
> 'bolded'.
>
> So what i understand Vaidheeswaran to be asking is: Please don't code
> things such that presentation style is /necessarily/ carried along with
> citation style. Make it so that exporting a document faithfully
> reproduces the citation style in the target format, but don't /force/
> the presentation style used in the source format for citation style to
> be the presentation style used in the destination format.
>
> Vaidheeswaran, is that correct?


That is the sense in which I used the word 'style'.

I also used 'style' in the sense of the relative order or form
(abbreviated or not) of how the fields from citation database entry
gets presented.

I also used 'style' in the sense of Chicago, APA etc.

When Richard uses 'formatting' he really means how pre and post notes
should be injected in to the inline expansion of a citation reference
(in the body text) so that a reader's experience is uneven due to
jarring parenthetical marks.

Even though we use terms differently, (I think) I have a feel for what
the 'big' discussion is about.

May be the citation spec, should come with a glossary of of terms that
defines the sense in which those need to be understood/interpreted :-P