On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 9:31 AM Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes: > > > In my mind, "opening" leads to the bibliography reference, not to the > > original document. IIUC, in this situation, the location does not matter > > much, does it? > > > > In any case, Org has no clue about the "location" of the citation. It > > can provide the suffix associated to the citation key, but it is up to > > the citation processor to extract page information out of it. If this is > > desirable, we need to provide the full citation object instead of the > > key. I don't know if it is worth the trouble. > > From my experience using org-ref for citations, going to the > bibliography reference is rarely useful. Most of time, I want to jump to > the document I am citing (or even page in the document). > > I think that full citation object should be worth passing to the > citation backend.
I agree. FWIW, this is how the pandoc API describes this point, which I believe is consistent with Nicolas' meaning of "citation objects"? "a list of Citations (each of which may have multiple CitationItems)." Bruce
