Re: [wip-cite-new] Adjust punctuation around citations

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 8:03 AM Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 7:56 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> 
> wrote:

...

> > In any case, this explains why the docstring has a bias. I updated it to
> > insist on the fact that these are rules for author-year to note
> > conversion.
>
> FWIW, I agree with this decision.
>
> High level, the basic logic says to a user if you need to cite
> something, insert a citation, and let your citation processor take
> care of the rest.
>
> Whether that final output is a number, a footnote mark, or an
> author-date representation, it should "just work."

To make explicit what is implicit above:

What I'm saying is it's not actually an author-date bias, even if the
examples we've discussed have focused on that.

Rather, this functionality allows an export processor to handle
automatic footnoting of in-text, as opposed to in-note, citations,
regardless of what the initial output expectation for those citations
are.

I don't know how to elegantly express this for the docstring, but just
wanted to clarify.

Bruce