Delimiting year groups in collapsed citation: possible?

circeus-boy
edited October 16, 2022
I'm trying to turn the collapsed citation "(Neave, 1939a, b, 1940a, b)" into "(Neave, 1939a, b; 1940a, b)"—or alternatively "(Neave, 1939a, b; Neave 1940a, b)"—by separating the two year with a semicolon. I strongly suspect this is impossible because as far as I can tell, in CSL behavior is to collapse all references with the same author into a single group and use only one delimiter within the collapsed group.

Can someone confirm so I don't have to concern myself about it?
  • adamsmith
    edited October 16, 2022
    *ignore, this was wrong*
  • circeus-boy
    edited October 16, 2022
    After experimenting, it also looks like year-suffix-delimiter is actually ignored entirely and only cite-group-delimiter actually is used when collapse has been defined.

    That is, defining an explicit year-suffix-delimiter alongside collapse doesn't do anything because (Zotero? Citeproc?) still looks up cite-group-delimiter, even though it shouldn't (at least if I read the spec correctly) and that defaults to ", ", overriding any year-suffix-delimiter.
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