Re: [Docutils-users] Scientific article example

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

On 10/17/2011 10:09 AM, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> A space is a legal identifier in a CSV field. My example
> is CSV. If it were just space separated, then it would see
> the string "Spring and Summer" as 3 different fields; CSV
> reads them as one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values

> The info I am talking about is not in the bibliographic
> database, but in the actual citation. For example, the
> author cited above may point to a multi volume work. The
> citation needs to point to not only the page, but the
> volumes. For example, in MLA format:

My view is that your citation should specify the volume,
although obviously your field may have a different practice.
In any case [mykey{page:197,volume:2}]_ does what you want.

> In rst:
> "It is noted by prominent critics that Homer was most
> likely not blind from birth [Begonzi, 55 X]_"

Too implicit.

> In fact, why not combine the two methods? If there is just
> a page number (the case probably 90% of the time,), simply
> use a space:

Too implicit.

fwiw,
Alan