Re: [Docutils-users] Scientific article example

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On 10/17/2011 9:08 AM, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> But what if the citation requires other information, such as a volume
> number? I think a more flexible solution would involve CSV within the
> citation:
>
> [imauthor-2011-jdu 55 X "Spring and Summer"]_


I suppose from your example that you mean *space* separated values.

The format I proposed in much more powerful, in that
it allows identification of each field.  I chose it
for resemblance to a Python dict.

But more to the point, the information you are talking
about is not specific to a single citation reference instance;
it belongs to the entire citation.  So that is where it should go,
not in the citation reference.

(Actually, where it should go is in a bibliographic database
that is accessed using the citation reference key. You can
have this basic functionality via bibstuff.)

Cheers,
Alan Isaac