Disambiguation problems

birne75

Dear all,
I'm trying to combine disambiguate-add-year-suffix and a macro for adding the year if title & author of two items are identical.

The following items are being referenced:

(a) Doe, Jane. "The Latin pronouns". Latin Studies 33/2 (1980), pp. 12-56
(b) Doe, Jane. "The Latin pronouns". Latin Studies 33/3 (1980), pp. 13-35.
(c) Doe, John. "The Latin future". Latin Philology 56 (1980), pp. 35-78.
(d) Doe, John, "The Latin future". Latin Philology 58 (1982), pp. 40-80.

Now, the citations are all note only, having the format contributor-short, title-short, locator.

I have the following code for the citation rules:

<citation et-al-min="4" et-al-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-names="true" disambiguate-add-givenname="true" givenname-disambiguation-rule="all-names">


and the following macro for disambiguating identical author/title cites:

<macro name="date-disambiguate">
<choose>
<if disambiguate="true">
<text macro="issued" prefix="(" suffix=")"/>
</if>
</choose>
</macro>


This results in the following Citations:

(c) and (d) appear now as

John Doe, "The Latin future" (1980), pp. 40-42.
John Doe, "The Latin future" (1982), p. 50.

and (a) and (b) appear as

Jane Doe, "The Latin pronouns" (1980), pp. 23-26.
Jane Doe, "The Latin pronouns" (1980), p. 33.

So they are not further disambiguated by letters like 1980a and 1980b.
When I try to get this by adding disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true", I have the following results:

John Doe, "The Latin future", pp. 40-42.
John Doe, "The Latin future", p. 50.
Jane Doe, "The Latin pronouns", pp. 23-26.
Jane Doe, "The Latin pronouns", p. 33.

So the year has disappeared from the citations, rendering them ambiguous. The bibliography, however, looks now as follows:


(a) Doe, Jane. "The Latin pronouns". Latin Studies 33/2 (1980a), pp. 12-56
(b) Doe, Jane. "The Latin pronouns". Latin Studies 33/3 (1980b), pp. 13-35.
(c) Doe, John. "The Latin future". Latin Philology 56 (1980a), pp. 35-78.
(d) Doe, John, "The Latin future". Latin Philology 58 (1982b), pp. 40-80.

While the suffix in (a-b) is not a big deal, I don't want it displayed in (c-d), since the year is enough to disambiguate the items. I'd like to display the suffixes in (a-B) also in the note citations.

Deleting the macro for date-disambiguate does not change anything.

How do I manage it to display the years suffix for (a-b) in the citations (and bibliography, if there is no other way), but only to add the year of issue for (c-d) in citations?

Can this be done?

Many thanks in advance,
Daniel