t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: > You and others are advocating a separate syntax for links and citations, > which might indeed be the way to go. I can see it being much nicer than > the current state of affairs with Org mode links. The downside is that > it will mean learning another set of rules, in addition to the existing > rules for links.
So we bump the version number? The [[cite:key]] would not stop working. > Several years ago, Samuel Wales suggested an extensible syntax example > using link features > (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-08/msg00404.html). > At the time it seemed to me that this was a Lisp-y approach because it > solved particular problems by generalizing or abstracting a language > feature to include particulars that had previously fallen outside its > ken. I wanted something like this while I was working on implementing > citation links for export to LaTeX. > > Would it be feasible to generalize Org mode's link syntax, or make it > extensible, so the overlap of link with citation is complete? I like :key entry-links and it would be powerful. Certain like types would also need to support custom display functions. You could then implement a cite-operator '@' as a handler for a generalized link. —Rasmus -- Governments should be afraid of their people
