sorting in the citation layout?

CSL Development
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Hi,

just a quick question about sorting in the citation element of CSL: I
think it is supposed to sort the citations in a citation group,
right?

If yes, isn’t the order of citations something the author alone should
take care of? If I write

\cite{Doe2006; Smith2000; Doe2001, p. 6}

I expect that order to be unchangeable. Instead, if the sort element
is present, the order can be changed?

Best,
Andrea

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just a quick question about sorting in the citation element of CSL: I
think it is supposed to sort the citations in a citation group,
right?

Right.

If yes, isn’t the order of citations something the author alone should
take care of? If I write

\cite{Doe2006; Smith2000; Doe2001, p. 6}

I expect that order to be unchangeable. Instead, if the sort element
is present, the order can be changed?

I believe in Zotero, one can turn off sorting of individual citation
groups. But in a markup system like Markdown, I’m not sure how
practical that is

Keep in mind that some author-date styles may have conventions like
(Doe, 2000a, 2000b), where the group is sorted by author-date, and the
author is dropped from all but the first. In those cases, automatic
sorting is really nice to have, probably particularly so in a GUI
environment.

Bruce