I guess that the actions I use most often when "opening" a citation are, opening the pdf, going to the webpage for it, and then opening the bibtex entry (usually to fix capitalization or something). In org-ref though, there are a whole bunch of other potential actions, like searching for related citations, copying the key or formatted citation to the clipboard, etc. I guess my point is there are a lot of things that opening might mean to different people.
in org-ref, with any of those, the first step is finding where the key sits in your bib-files, and then getting that entry. It is in a way a primitive citation processor before the one that is used at export. Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> writes: > 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. > > Best, > Ihor -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu Pronouns: he/him/his
