Bruce D'Arcus

Also, for this discussion, I want to avoid talking about a specific implementation and workarounds (hacks), and only what we can and should do with the CSL syntax and spec....

Yes. So then you are asserting that the Chicago (and presumably APA) rule ONLY applies to my case 2? If that's really the case, then it seems maybe we can't...

> We could probably simplify this down to “`page` may be a comma-delimited list of label-value pairs. A single value without a label is assumed to be a page number.”...

I hope you're wrong (but you're probably not!), but we could at least automate simple conversions, and flag more complex examples of styles that need manual work? If yes, we...

OK. To illustrate what I was initially thinking ... Perhaps one simple rule to check the style files themselves is looking for elements where there are a prefix but no...

Thanks for the thorough explanation. To be clear, I don't really care. I just presented an emphatic statement, with the plea for us to decide.

PS - advantage of status quo is we could just amend the 1.0 spec to include the behavior, and be done.

> I think, it’s a good idea to add the current behavior to the spec 1.0 spec. Let's do this then. Is there existing documentation of the behavior in citeproc-js...

[This](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc-citeproc/blob/master/src/Text/CSL/Output/Pandoc.hs#L55) appears to be the pandoc-citeproc code responsible for this, but alas there are no docstrings on the functions, and I don't find Haskell the most easy-to-understand language. The citeproc-rs...

> EDTF opens up a couple of new opportunities that are worth considering. The most obviously valuable one appears to be datetimes, but there are a lot of possibilities. Yes,...