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andras-simonyi / citeproc-el

A CSL 1.0.2 Citation Processor for Emacs.
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New citation mode: possessive cite or so #26

Open denismaier opened 3 years ago

denismaier commented 3 years ago

When using in-text citation you sometimes may want to have the author of a paper in the possessive form:

I'm talking about Doe's (2020) concept of ...

Should this be supported? Related pandoc issue: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7385

Should be much easier to support this with the new org syntax than with pandoc's design philosophy in mind.

andras-simonyi commented 3 years ago

Isn't this too English-dependent/focused? I don't really see how this would work in a language-agnostic way -- in morphologically rich(er) languages you could have several additional cases like dative, accusative etc.

denismaier commented 3 years ago

Isn't this too English-dependent/focused? I don't really see how this would work in a language-agnostic way -- in morphologically rich(er) languages you could have several additional cases like dative, accusative etc.

Yes, that's probably correct. I don't have a good suggestion ATM.