Denis Maier

> A single, say python, file, whose contents is the data representation, output to both rnc and json? Exactly, see above. (Or instead of python, we could also use some...

Perhaps there's a third way to approach this problem: Leave support for law out of CSL completely, but add ways to enhance vanilla CSL with additional features or sets of...

> * Parallel legal citation is outside the scope of CSL > > * Multiple-jurisdiction legal citation is outside the scope of CSL Regarding the apparent complexity of these two...

> When ideas like this have come up, I've wondered: how would this idea of "add-ons" or "extensions" actually work? Do we have any idea? Not really... ;-) @cormacrelf has...

> In fact, I do see the complexity in the latter if you modularise the styles. Really, isn't that just another conditional? Or another pre-processing step? Perhaps @fbennett could chime...

Overall, I think that would be a useful addition. That's one of the things I miss from biblatex where you have the flexibility to mix note citations with in-text citations....

> But ... if we were to support it, would not the other, better, option be to remove `cs:intext` and simply allow multiple citation elements, perhaps with a fixed set...

> One other point to remember--a big part of the design of the intext system was that it permitted automatic intext support with existing items with no changes at all...

> > I'm not following how this would accommodate something like Chicago (fullnote) style, where in a narrative citation, the author would be given in text and then the rest...

No, don't close. We're mixing things up. This issue is exactly as you say: Can we have mix multiple citation formats in the same document. Footcite, citet, parencite, etc. My...