Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes: > Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes: > >> That would be wonderful! Will you publish a patch or, better, a branch >> somewhere, even if it's not ready for master? > > I created a new branch: "wip-cite". It introduces support for @key > [@key] [cite:pre @key post] and [(cite):pre @key post] constructs.
Great! I'll take a look. What's the next step here? Adding support for multiple references? multi-cites? `&'-keys? > As a reminder, I prefer subkeys over plists because they have a smaller > footprint in the document. Also, as already explained, having many > subkeys is not a problem with proper tooling (e.g., some completion with > descriptions). Note that this is closer to "org-ref" requirements, > probably making easier to port some features into core. > > However, opinion from advanced citation users on this ML has more weight > that mine. Instead of trying to figure out hypothetical crazy uses for > citations (e.g., using 50 different citation commands), I'd rather hear > from people with real citation requirements who are willing to use this > machinery. Yes, me too. > At this point, we probably need to implement a BIBLIOGRAPHY keyword > (files) and BIBLIOGRAPHY_BACKEND (bibtex, zotero, jabref...) and provide > basic tools to handle citations in an Org document. Could we guess the backend from the file extension on the BIBLIOGRAPHY, to keep things simple here? I don't use a citation manager, so I don't know if this is possible for anything other than Bib(La)TeX. Also, as mentioned earlier, it would be really nice to support org-bibtex as one of the reference database formats. (It's what I use, so naturally it's what I think we should bless. :) This would allow storing your reference database in-document. Some things to think about: 1) Is there ever a need to mix reference database formats in the same document (e.g., zotero and org-bibtex)? (I would think not, but my needs are simple.) 2) Is there ever a need to mix multiple reference databases in the *same* format (e.g., two different .bib files)? (I would think so, given the existence in BibLaTeX of \addbibresource.) 3) If the answer to either 1 or 2 is yes, how should we decide precedence between multiple reference databases? (Two databases might contain the same key.) Best, Richard
