Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes: > Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes: > >> Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes: >> >>> ...so the first step for introducing citation syntax to Org should be >>> compiling a list of all the things such a syntax should represent. >> >> See also >> >> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/72446> > > Within a citation, each reference to an individual work needs to be > capable of containing: > 1) a database key that references the cited work > 2) prefix / pre-text > 3) suffix / post-text > 4) references to page/chapter/section/whatever numbers and ranges. > This is likely part of the prefix or suffix, but might be worth > parsing separately for localization or link-following behavior. > 5) a way of indicating backend-agnostic formatting properties. > Examples of some properties users might want to specify are:
> - displaying only some fields (or suppressing some fields) from a > reference record (e.g., journal, date, author) Would this not be properties of the bibliography and not the citation? > Citations as a whole also need: > 6) [@6] a way of indicating formatting properties for specific export > backends. I think the idea would be /not/ to have to consider specific backends. If you want special properties (say bold) for HTML could it not be solved by a macro or a filter? Probably I'm misunderstanding. > ... > - CSS or other styling class (HTML and derived backends; also > ODT?) The user solves this by writing CSS. Of course citations would be wrapped in a span or whatever. > - properties describing how to treat emphasis and other > formatting that cannot appear in plain text (ASCII and other > plain text backends) IMO this is solved by ox-ascii.el already. > In addition to the syntax of citations themselves, the Org document > would also need to represent the following metadata to support > citations: > 7) [@7] a pointer to one or more backend reference databases, > including in-document databases in org-bibtex format This would be a huge win. > 8) a reference to a citation style or style file How does this work outside of LaTeX? > 9) a reference to a locale file There's already a #+BIBLIOGRAPHY or #+REFERENCES in ox-bibtex.el. But it's quite limited. > 10) an indication of where the bibliography should be found in the > exported document (equivalent to \printbibliography, etc. in > LaTeX) > I would like to know if others can think of anything else that should go > on this list. I am particularly interested in hearing from people who > use (or want to use) citations with non-LaTeX export backends, since I > am least familiar with how citations work in those types of documents. I would use citations in html and even odt. Put it's a hard problem 'cause there's nothing quite like bib(la)tex (to the best of my knowledge). > I have also been working on a proposal for citation syntax that I think > will meet these requirements, which I will post separately. Cool! Let me know if I can help. I have mainly worked on regexps for the syntax I proposed in another email. —Rasmus -- The second rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club
