Frank Bennett

Points taken. If a specific variable is to be used, my own preference would be to give it a descriptive name, rather than binding it to ECLI specifically. Systems like...

Would be happy with `legal-eid`, if that's generally acceptable. It flags that it's limited to legal materials, and the slightly cryptic `eid` element would prompt curiosity to look at the...

Are there styles that vary the delimiter on a locator depending on whether it is part of a group or not? That seems a very odd design choice. Apart from...

I dread digging into this area again, but if we're not conforming to style requirements, it will have to happen in citeproc-js or its successors. I guess the main ask...

There are various transliteration schemes (roman, cyrillic, many others), and some languages require a native transliteration for basic sorting (hiragana in Japanese, Taiwan sorts Unicode glyphs directly, but I'm not...

> Can you post a Jurism CSL JSON export with some translated/transliterated fields or point to a test with some? Here is the data behind this citation: > Ume Kenjirō...

> could you explain what the source>target structure for field languages conveys? Jurism recognizes a vector in the Language field: > ``ja>en`` or > ``en

Yes, the variables are available in citations. We've used them for translated legal documents in theses, where the original has been destroyed or is no longer available.

> @fbennett Why is it that you have two `multi` objects in your CSL JSON export, one under `author`, and the other as a top level object containing standard variables?...

Here is a patch for the schema change, from the MLZ branch. It won't apply cleanly to official CSL 1.0, but shows what what would be added: ``` diff ---...