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Document colon, comma, semicolon #107

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Clarify attributes affected by punctuation terms.
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bwiernik committed Jul 7, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -690,7 +690,22 @@ Localized Punctuation
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The terms ``colon``, ``comma``, and ``semicolon`` define locale-specific punctuation marks.
When specified in the locale, all instances of the ":" (``colon``), "," (``comma``), and ";" (``semicolon``) characters specified in the style in ``value``, ``prefix``, ``suffix``, and ``delimiter`` attributes are replaced with their corresponding terms.
When specified in the locale, all instances of the ":" (``colon``), "," (``comma``), and ";" (``semicolon``) characters specified in the style in the follow attributes are replaced with their corresponding terms:

- ``after-collapse-delimiter``
- ``cite-group-delimiter``
- ``delimiter``
- ``initialize-with``
- ``name-delimiter``
- ``names-delimiter``
- ``prefix``
- ``range-delimiter``
- ``sort-separator``
- ``suffix``
- ``title-delimiter``
- ``year-suffix-delimiter``
- ``value``

Any ":", ",", or ";" characters contained in item data are unchanged.
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Well, but what about titles? With the new title-split feature this would be no longer true.

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I think including title-delimiter in this list makes the behavior clear enough? What do you think @bdarcus?

Other characters included in affected attributes aside from ":", ",", or ";" (e.g., spaces) are unchanged.

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