Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal

[John Kitchin]

>
>> There is no question in my mind that some people will want to extend
>> this, as there are just too few of the latex citation commands
>> supported out of the box, especially for biblatex users (who used that
>> because of limitations in bibtex ;).
>
> Do you think there are important commands that I missed?  I did try to
> make sure that all the major distinctions in biblatex were covered,
> though I ignored some more esoteric things like smartcite and volcite.

I think the most common ones are there. It is just that over a decade in
academia has taught me that there are always people that do things
another way, for some reason, including to be difficult ;)


> So I suggest we let a thousand flowers bloom, and see what people come
> up with, rather than trying to cut down on the verbosity up front.

Also fine with me.


> Hmm, OK.  Let's discuss this in another thread.
>
>> So, overall, I am on the positive side of zero.
>
> Haha, leave it to a physical scientist to turn a discrete interval into
> a continuous one... ;)

Indeed! I could have gone with

+i

for I imagine it might work ;)

>
> Best,
> Richard

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