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CSL Development
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I think we’re going to need to add this, in a suitably general way:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/15080/composite-references/

I think we need a way to flexibly print the index of a multi-reference
citation item.

Bruce

2

I guess we need:

a) a variable that holds the index of the citation group, which can be used
in cs:citation instead of “citation-number” (e.g. “citation-group-number”)
b) a variable that holds the index of the items in each bibliography group
(we could repurpose “citation-number” for this, but a separate variable
might be clearer)
c) an additional value for the “form” attribute on cs:number, “letters”
(giving “a”, “b”, “c”, etc.), to go with addition (b)

I’m not sure what changes are required to support the additional level of
hierarchy in the bibliography, though, as I expect there will be some issues
with cs:layout and prefixes/suffixes.

Rintze

3

I think we’re going to need to add this, in a suitably general way:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/15080/composite-references/

I think we need a way to flexibly print the index of a multi-reference
citation item.

The examples given in the forum thread are footnotes, or multi-item
bibliography entries?

4

The latter. I believe it’s a numeric style at root.

Bruce

5

The paper at
http://www.hechtlab.de/projects/HechtLab/static/custom/reprints/2010%20Chemistry.pdfshows
more complications, as in-text citations can apparently also refer to
a single item in a citation-group or to multiple citation-groups (see e.g.
“supramolecular architectures,[1b] optoelectronic[1b, 4] and magnetic[5]
materials” and “in coordination chemistry.[9, 11]”). In addition, the
bibliography is extensively annotated.

Even if CSL were to support all this, the word processor plug-ins would need
a lot of work for this one.

Rintze

6

I guess the most important thing to note here is that some bibliographic
entries don’t contain any bibliographic references (e.g. numbers 42-44).

Rintze

7

The paper at
http://www.hechtlab.de/projects/HechtLab/static/custom/reprints/2010%20Chemistry.pdf
shows more complications, as in-text citations can apparently also refer to
a single item in a citation-group or to multiple citation-groups (see e.g.
“supramolecular architectures,[1b] optoelectronic[1b, 4] and magnetic[5]
materials” and “in coordination chemistry.[9, 11]”). In addition, the
bibliography is extensively annotated.

Even if CSL were to support all this, the word processor plug-ins would need
a lot of work for this one.

At first blush, it looks like this would be ridiculously difficult to
implement. The bibliography has some attributes of a bibliography
(i.e. the numbers and leaf-numbers point at bibliographic entries),
and some attributes of a note style (i.e. there are multiple items
under each heading).

While I’m generally up for a challenge, on this occasion I vote that
we let the chemists sort this one out.