docs: the forms citefind learnt from the corpus

Three more shapes in the table — a reading list with nothing marking it, an
editor in the author's place, a reprint's two years — and three more refusals
named: a keyed short cite, a translator's signed note, and a page of
references whose lines happen to begin on numbers.

Also says what the cut does with a blank line now: it is often after the
running head rather than between the entries under it, so every block it
produces is looked at again.
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left out. The copyright line a digitised book prints at the foot of every left out. The copyright line a digitised book prints at the foot of every
page is cut off the end of whatever note it landed on. page is cut off the end of whatever note it landed on.
A page of references whose lines happen to begin on numbers is still a
bibliography: `Mellor, Hugh (1974) "In Defense of Dispositions," Philosophical
Review 83:157-` continues `81. Reprinted in Mellor (1991):104-22.`, and that
`81.` is half a page range rather than a note number. More lines opening on a
surname than there are markers decides it.
**A bibliography** numbers nothing, so the signal is layout: a blank line **A bibliography** numbers nothing, so the signal is layout: a blank line
between entries, a hanging indent under each, or the surname-comma opening between entries, a hanging indent under each, or the surname-comma opening
that nearly every author-first entry begins with. Whichever the block carries that nearly every author-first entry begins with. Whichever the block carries
is the one used. When it carries none of them the fallback is one entry per is the one used — and each block a blank line produces is looked at again,
line, which is right for a list that was never wrapped and visibly wrong for because the blank line is often after the running head and not between the
one that was. entries under it. Inside a block, one line opening on a surname and a comma
is enough: a block is a single entry or a list of them, not a mixture.
## The forms it reads ## The forms it reads
@@ -176,6 +183,9 @@ one that was.
| Chicago short note | `Unger, Dutch Shipbuilding, 33-4` | | Chicago short note | `Unger, Dutch Shipbuilding, 33-4` |
| Commas only | `Miller, David, On Nationality, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995` | | Commas only | `Miller, David, On Nationality, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995` |
| Commas and a place | `Cheyne, T. K., Founders of Old Testament Criticism, London, 1893.` | | Commas and a place | `Cheyne, T. K., Founders of Old Testament Criticism, London, 1893.` |
| Reading list, unmarked | `Block, N. 1981. Psychologism and behaviorism. Philosophical Review 90:5-43.` |
| Editor in the author's place | `Barratt, Alexandra, ed. Women's Writing in Middle English. London: Longman, 1992.` |
| A reprint's two years | `Schleiermacher, Friedrich. 1813/1963. "Ueber die verschiedenen Methoden…"` |
| Chapter in a book | `Brown, Peter. "Sorcery…" In *Witchcraft Confessions*, ed. Mary Douglas, 17-45. London: Tavistock, 1970.` | | Chapter in a book | `Brown, Peter. "Sorcery…" In *Witchcraft Confessions*, ed. Mary Douglas, 17-45. London: Tavistock, 1970.` |
**Where the italics sit decides what they are.** In `Peirce (1878). Plain **Where the italics sit decides what they are.** In `Peirce (1878). Plain
@@ -205,6 +215,14 @@ that is two entries run together. A quotation mark with no partner means the
cut landed inside a title — unless it is the last character, which is a cut landed inside a title — unless it is the last character, which is a
stray an opening mark was lost from. stray an opening mark was lost from.
**Take a keyed short cite for a reference.** `Mate selection: Buss, 1989;
Symons, 1979.` keys a note's own words to works given in full elsewhere. The
topic is not an author and `Buss, 1989` is not a work, so it is flagged
`continuation` like `ibid.`
**Take a translator's note for a reference.** An em dash and a role at the
end — `— Ed.`, `— Tr.` — is how a translator signs a note of their own.
**Take chapter and verse for a work.** `Matthew 4:17` and `Cf. Deuteronomy **Take chapter and verse for a work.** `Matthew 4:17` and `Cf. Deuteronomy
18:15-19; Isaiah 53` are scripture references, which is most of what the 18:15-19; Isaiah 53` are scripture references, which is most of what the
notes of a theological book are. So is `PG 4: 264` — Migne, and CSEL, NPNF, notes of a theological book are. So is `PG 4: 264` — Migne, and CSEL, NPNF,