need feedback on handling footnoted citations

CSL Development
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This is mostly for Simon, I believe, but we’re talking about enhancing
citeproc-hs integration with pandoc, and John came across some issues
outlined here:

http://groups.google.com/group/pandoc-discuss/browse_frm/thread/43af3c7b89f8d16f

The key bit has to do with punctuation issues when printing these
footnoted citations:

Here there are three problems:

  • The footnote is missing a period, since the period was outside
    of the citation
  • The period occurs after the footnote.
  • There is a space before the footnote.

It’s a bit hard to see how to resolve these issues, given that, when
pandoc is actually parsing the citation, it won’t know whether the
output is to be rendered using a footnote style or an author/date
style.

So how is this done in Zotero with citeproc-js?

On a related note, do we need to start a CSL API document somewhere,
where we might address all these details?

Bruce

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If I understand what you are saying correctly, the first problem isn’t actually an issue when the citations are formatted according to the style. Footnote styles code for a period at the end of the citation, while author-date styles don’t.

WRT the latter two problems, at the moment, we do nothing. In 1.0, the plug-in would automatically get rid of the space and switch the period around the punctuation if it was present, but I didn’t end up implementing this in the 3.0 series plug-ins. I was planning to add it back at some point, but I haven’t heard many requests for its return.

Simon

3

…

If I understand what you are saying correctly, the first problem isn’t
actually an issue when the citations are formatted according to the style.
Footnote styles code for a period at the end of the citation, while
author-date styles don’t.

Right.

WRT the latter two problems, at the moment, we do nothing. In 1.0, the
plug-in would automatically get rid of the space and switch the period
around the punctuation if it was present, but I didn’t end up implementing
this in the 3.0 series plug-ins. I was planning to add it back at some
point, but I haven’t heard many requests for its return.

Consider this a request :wink:

What’s the best/easiest way to to code this conceptually?

Bruce