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denismaier opened this issue Jun 16, 2021 · 2 comments
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New citation mode: possessive cite or so #26

denismaier opened this issue Jun 16, 2021 · 2 comments

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@denismaier
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When using in-text citation you sometimes may want to have the author of a paper in the possessive form:

I'm talking about Doe's (2020) concept of ...

Should this be supported?
Related pandoc issue: jgm/pandoc#7385

Should be much easier to support this with the new org syntax than with pandoc's design philosophy in mind.

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Isn't this too English-dependent/focused? I don't really see how this would work in a language-agnostic way -- in morphologically rich(er) languages you could have several additional cases like dative, accusative etc.

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Isn't this too English-dependent/focused? I don't really see how this would work in a language-agnostic way -- in morphologically rich(er) languages you could have several additional cases like dative, accusative etc.

Yes, that's probably correct. I don't have a good suggestion ATM.

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