Idea: Should we promote the: "module-type: formatfilteroperator" for 3rd-party suffixes and parameters?

[pmario]

@Jermolene -- This is a discussion - no issue.

At Talk, there is a discussion about a More precise titlecase? -- The discussion is marked as resolved, but there is still some brainstorming going on.

@CrossEye did create a new filter-operator: apatitle. see: https://crosseye.github.io/TW5-demos/2024-03-03a/

I did suggest, to implement it as a new suffix for the “format-operator” since the format-operator already has a core mechanism in place that allows new suffixes to be a separate js-file. module-type: formatfilteroperator

CrossEye wrote:

My worry about trying to introduce this to the core is that APA is just one of the major citation styles, many with different capitalization rules. While it’s probably overall the most popular, there’s also MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Bluebook, and many more. Emphasizing one over the others may belong in user-land, not the core.

I wrote:

... But I still think the format-operator suffixes are a good way to go, even with a 3rd party plugin, because they already have the needed core infrastructure. The core format operator suffixes are: date, json, relativedate, timestamp and titlelist at the moment.

We could establish a new suffix prefix eg: user- or 3p- like user-apa or 3p-apa and probably many others. -- IMO this would be a good discussion point with Jeremy at GH-discussions. I'll start one, after I finished this response.

• 3p- ... 3rd-party ... If I personally would see this one, I'd start searching, what it is good for. So we would need some good docs.
• user- ... IMO self explanatory

So the questions are:

1. Should we create new 3rd-party operators, with names that are not distinguishable from core operatos, or
2. should we promote the format:suffix<parameter> approach with an eg: user- or 3p- suffix-prefix, or
3. should we establish a new rule for 3rd party operators. May be also eg: 3p- but as an operator-prefix

@Jermolene, @saqimtiaz and others -- what do you think?