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Delimiter on cs:layout in cs:citation only?

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Bruce D'Arcus
To: Rintze Zelle

What does "delimiter" on cs:citation ... mean?

Seems to me there are effectively two delimiters:
one for the citation (author) group, and one of the item. So how do we
distinguish them?
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Rintze Zelle
To: Bruce D'Arcus
Cc: Frank Bennett

The delimiter on cs:layout in cs:citation specifies how multiple items in a citation cluster should be separated. E.g. in APA (http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa):

<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">

results in (Abe, 1962; Asimov, n.d.)

Could you give an example of each delimiter though? I'm having difficulty seeing which are the two options you have in mind.
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Bruce D'Arcus
To: Rintze Zelle

(Doe, 1999, 2000; Smith, 2003)
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Rintze Zelle
To: Bruce D'Arcus
Cc: Frank Bennett

I'm not sure this is possible in CSL 1.0, assuming "; " is the delimiter between non-collapsed cites*. Frank? I don't know if this way of punctuating cites makes sense though.

* As in (Doe, 1999, 2000; Smith, 2003; Thomson, 1992)
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Frank Bennett
To: Rintze Zelle

Apparently we don't cover this yet.  If with a comma after 2003, we do.
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Rintze Zelle
Cc: Bruce D'Arcus, Frank Bennett

So perhaps we need "year-delimiter". But my suggestion would be to only introduce it when somebody starts complaining. It should be an easy fix, but maybe not a necessary one.
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Frank Bennett
To: Rintze Zelle

Sounds like a good plan.
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