Upgrade StorageIssue converting between versions of Chicago style
I wanted to report an issue I had converting from Chicago full footnote to author-year style. The conversion dropped the author-year citation in where the original footnote number was in the text. This had the effect of placing the citation outside punctuation rather than inside where it belongs. It also resulted in no leading space before a citation, even when punctuation was not involved. That made for a lot of tedious manual editing on a long manuscript.
In lieu of that, one thing you could do that would help a lot and I suppose shouldn't be too hard is to just add a space before the author-date citation.
I haven't spent a lot of time on this, but e.g. using Word search with Wildcards enabled in a copy of the document with citations unlinked
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([\?\!\.])([\(]*[\)])Replace with
\2\1will take any parenthetical that immediately follows period, question mark, or exclamation mark and instead place it insides the same punctuation mark and add a space before it, so you go from to Word Fields apparently can't be found in wildcard searches, so doing this in an active document would require a VBA macro -- certainly also doable.