Re: Citations: non-page locators placed in front of citation

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

M. ‘quintus’ Gülker <post+orgmodeml@guelker.eu> writes:

> apologies for my frequent e-mails. It’s just that I am evaluating the
> citations facility for me.

On the contrary, feedback on citations is very much welcome. This is
a new features, and as such, has some rough edges.

> This time it’s about non-page locators. Take the following document:
>
>     #+TITLE: Test
>     #+AUTHOR: testauthor
>
>     #+LANGUAGE: de
>     #+bibliography: /tmp/mwe/mwe.bib
>
>     #+cite_export: csl /tmp/mwe/juristische-schulung.csl
>
>     Das ist ein Test [cite:@saenger2013gsr § 12 Rn. 488].
>
> juristische-schulung.csl is
> https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/e22b8a566bad9b4c7f52720f60dd875057a5d210/juristische-schulung.csl.
>
> This is mwe.bib:
>
>     @Book{saenger2013gsr,
>       author       = {Ingo Saenger},
>       title        = {Gesellschaftsrecht},
>       year      = {2013},
>       edition   = {2},
>       publisher = {Franz Vahlen},
>       location  = {München},
>       langid    = {ngerman}}
>
> Note how this work is not cited by page, but instead (which is common
> among German judicial literature) by section number (§) plus margin number
> (Rn.). Exporting this e.g. to HTML yields in Footnote 1:
>
>     §  Saenger, Gesellschaftsrecht, 2. Aufl. (2013), 12 Rn. 488
>
> That is rather unexpected. It has pulled the § sign in front of the
> citation. The citation should have looked like this:
>
>     Saenger, Gesellschaftsrecht, 2. Aufl. (2013), § 12 Rn. 488

[...]

> Is it a bug or (again) my error?

It is a bug. You use a non-breaking space between the locator and the
number. I hadn't anticipated this (duh!). I fixed it. Could you confirm
it?

Thank you.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou