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How to define an in-text format for HTML citations? #33

Closed cboettig closed 4 years ago

cboettig commented 10 years ago

Hi CSL folks,

I would like to define a CSL file in which the in-text format includes a link to the resource. Can this be done in CSL by say, modifying the layout element appropriately? I cannot figure out how to use a variable in the prefix/suffix.

I imagine a <citation> element looking something like this:

 <layout prefix="(<a href='URL'>" suffix="</a>)" delimiter="; ">
          <text macro="author-short"/>
          <text macro="issued" prefix=" "/>
</layout>

but cannot see how to get URL value from something like <text macro="url"> into the prefix.

Given the importance of web-based formats and the ease of using CSL to generate citations in markdown and html documents with tools such as pandoc, it seems natural that individuals would want to style in-text citations not only to reflect journal norms of author surnames etc, but include such features as actual links, perhaps add title attributes for mouse-over effects, and so forth. If this is not possible in the current implementation, is this something CSL might address in the future?

rmzelle commented 10 years ago

Can you post this to xbiblio-devel? These issue trackers aren't frequented by most of our collaborators.

@fbennett might be able to provide a link (no pun intended) to previous discussions on this topic. It has come up before.

denismaier commented 4 years ago

What's the status of this here? In any case, that is not really related to the specs. Closing for now.

bdarcus commented 4 years ago

This is associated with #76, which I think we need to resolve for 1.1.