Hello, M. ‘quintus’ Gülker <post+orgmod...@guelker.eu> writes:
> The citation object will provide access to all elements of the new > cite syntax I assume, including things like key, prefix and suffix? Indeed. Also global prefix and suffix. > Several styles I am normally confronted with require crossreferencing > in citation footnotes (example: “Doe (see above Fn. 24), pp. 35-37”). > Formatting this requires access to the place where an @key first > occured in a footnote. The full list of citation objects probably > suffices for that information; on a first thought I would either use > the first citation object from that list with the @key at hand unequal > to the active citation object This would work. If it is a common need, Org could also provide such a helper function. > or use the citation object whose footnote label has the lowest number > and is unequal to the active citation object (if the list is not > guaranteed to be in said order). I would prefer the former approach, > because sometimes I deal with footnotes with numbers like “4a” (a > footnote inserted at a late stage in the authoring process between > footnotes 4 and 5), which defeats the lowest-number approach. Note that export process provides its own footnote numbering, which does not rely on the label used. See `org-export-get-footnote-number'. So you can also use the second method. > For non-footnote-based citations, the “helper function to determine > the footnote containing a citation” should probably return nil. Indeed. If there is no footnote definition containing the citation, it returns nil. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
