Introductions and other supplementary material

Thanks for your note about the OWL example. Good to know.

Concerning the title formatting, I basically see 4 options:

  • Don’t support it
  • Support it with an additional item type (or a sub-item type; e.g. chapter-supplementary)
  • Support it with a variable that serves as a boolean switch.
  • Use some nifty processor logic to find these cases (but that would have to be hard-coded in the processor, and I honestly don’t think it would be a good idea.)

Do you see other ways to achieve the desired result? What speaks against adding a new item type for this?

Again: That’s probably a discussion to be had after CSL 1.1, but anyway… My experience when teaching reference management software is just that say they’d rather create their citations and bibliographies by hand then rely on tools that produce results that are not 100% correct. (By the way, I don’t think it is particularly helpful to make this distinction between normal chapters and introductions, but that wasn’t my design choice.)