Hi, Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes:
> Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> writes: > >> IMO we /need/ to add proper citation support to Org, preferably with a >> real syntax rather than these link-"solutions" and with good backend >> support (bibtex & Zotero for starters, I guess). >> ... >> /Proper/ citation support (not links) is, IMO, the last thing that is >> missing for good academic publishing support. > > Although my home-baked solution presently works for me, I am inclined to > agree. It works for me as well, but it's still an ugly hack that I cannot advice friends and colleagues to follow. Still, I would much rather have quality-support like with entities. > I've just had a glance at: http://pandoc.org/README.html#citations Indeed. Pandoc seems to most sensible. I have a survey of implementations in on my other computer (in a folder that is not synced between my PCs). > Org does use single brackets and `@'-signs for other things (footnote > markers, priorities, statistics cookies, inactive timestamps, list > counters, inline export snippets -- I think that's it). But these > should all be pretty easy to tell apart from citations using regular > expressions, so I wouldn't expect parsing this syntax to present any > difficulties. Maybe something like: @short-textcite-key, (@parentcite-key) and [@textcite-key :with options] (@parencite-key :with options). > Does anyone have citation needs that this syntax doesn't cover? >From my experience with social science publication, one needs to be able to add options (e.g. cite-type, "citeyear", say) and pre and post notes. > The bigger question is whether, in addition to a citation *syntax*, it > would be a lot of work to add support for the various citation database > formats, as well as the various output styles, and which ones to > support. I guess. But it can be added gradually. BTW: Org has an almost-agnostic format for storing citation data via org-bibtex.el. So perhaps it's easier to go from whatever to org-bibtex-format and from there to ox-backend-format. I think that's how pandoc does it as well. —Rasmus -- May the Force be with you
