Re: [wip-cite-new] Adjust punctuation around citations

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

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Nicolas explained the reverse is out of scope, and gave a reasonable
explanation why (because much harder to reconstruct missing information
IIRC).

On Sun, Jun 13, 2021, 2:54 PM Denis Maier <denismaier@mailbox.org> wrote:

> Am 12.06.2021 um 11:39 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Denis Maier <denismaier@mailbox.org> writes:
> >
> >> Yes, good this is coming.
> >
> > As a step forward, I rebased wip-cite-new branch with more support for
> > note numbers handling.
> >
> > I added three customizable variables:
> >
> > - org-cite-adjust-note-numbers, which simply allows the user to toggle
> >    punctuation and note number moving (on by default).
> >
> > - org-cite-note-rules, which defines what rules to apply according to
> >    locale, expressed as a language tag, as in RFC 4646.
> >
> > - org-cite-punctuation-marks, which lists strings recognized as
> >    punctuation in the process.
> >
> > `csl' and `basic' processors now both make use of this.
> >
> > I'd appreciate some feedback, in particular about the docstrings of the
> > variables above. I focused on the "note numbers" topic instead of
> > "punctuation" since I found the latter too generic.
> >
> > Also, there are some points that may need to be discussed:
> >
> > - I'm not sure about the `org-cite-punctuation-marks' variable being
> >    global, i.e., not locale-specific.
> >
> > - There is no support for this in LaTeX-derived back-ends, because
> >    I don't know when a citation is going to become a footnote. As
> >    a reminder, there is no "\footcite" command in `biblatex' processor.
> >    OTOH, users might prefer using a more advanced mechanism, e.g.,
> >    csquotes.
> >
> > - It doesn't do anything special in quote blocks, because I'm still not
> >    sure there is something to do. AFAIU, special casing there only
> >    applies to author-date location, which out of the scope of this code.
> >
> > WDYT?
>
> Ok, I've managed to test this a bit, and I think this looks pretty good
> so far.
>
> The only question I'd still have is if this could somehow also cover the
> reverse situation (going from a note style to author-date). I've noticed
> that simply adding a new language rule doesn't work anymore---as opposed
> to my initial tests with earlier iterations of that mechanism. Seems
> like this mechanism is now only triggered when using a note based style.
>
> Best,
> Denis
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
>
>

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