I'm going to split off the syntax part of your email, Nicholas, for quick comment.
I need to think more about the other questions. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:02 AM Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: > > Finally, what does the above example look like when, say, there are > > two cites (say @doe2020 and @doe2019), and a global prefix? > > > > Is it this? > > > > [cite:see ;@doe2020;@doe2019] > > Yes, and a "t-styled" citation would be: > > [citet:see;@doe2020;@doe2019] > > Barring the prefix, the syntax of the citation does not change wrt to > "wip-cite" branch. However, this is enough to be slightly incompatible, > hence the "wip". > > > And a SuppressAuthor variant would be this? > > > > [cite:see ;-@doe2020;-@doe2019] > > Indeed. > > How does that sound? Good; no issues that I see with this at all. Only question is I see you removed whitespace after the prefix on your citet: example. Is the expectation (which is reasonable; am just asking) that prefixes would add the whitespace after it on output, so users don't have worry about this? So in other words, the value of an affix would be a trimmed string? Bruce