Denis Maier

> > It will just be a bit ugly, because you'll have a citation on "Jones" and then another one at the end of the sentence, which nobody would want....

> (we'd need a syntax for indicating it). What about +-@doe First symbol stands for author, second symbol for other parts of the citation (head vs. tail so to speak)....

Ok. thanks. I'll have a look. (Only thing that gives me headaches is that I'm using the `everything` retrieving method, and the error occurs after a couple of successfull retrievals,...

Sounds good---but are the successful requests preserved somewhere so I can just add to them?

The pull request was against @lucabalsanelli's fork, see [here](https://github.com/lucabalsanelli/documentation/commit/ca35646d0b5c9e205c615a3f05077220d1b9d304). @lucabalsanelli You need to open the pull request against the master branch in this repo. Here's how: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request

Will this work with one space after a period as well? Or do you need two spaces? Will it convert "Mrs. Smith said ..." to: > Mrs. Smith said ......

Not really sure, but maybe "shorten years if current year - issued year < 100". I.e, in 2020 you'd shorten all dates beginning with 1921.

Otoh, I think that's done mostly with label citation styles where I think this ambiguity is not so problematic as @bwiernik has pointed out.

> I'm not sure how much we want to embed "current year" into CSL processing? In any event, I think it is a rare enough occurrence that we can just...

> Just to give you some context: as a pet project I'm writing a CSL processor so these are just questions about what it should do in situation X, Y...