Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

>> It's the second of the two stoppers that John identified.
>>
>> He seems to have reported a related issue last August, but it slipped
>> through the cracks.
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2021-08/msg00303.html

> A long-term solution would be to apply fontification on top of parsed
> data exclusively. IIRC, I think Ihor started to work on something like
> this, but I don't know about the current state of that project.

Yeah, but I afraid that I will have to implement object-level caching to
get sustainable performance. Currently, I got something semi-working in
https://github.com/yantar92/org/tree/feature/org-font-lock-element, but
it still chocks on large paragraphs with a lot of emphasis objects.

> One short-term solution would be to use the same function to fontify
> links and cites. I.e., "org.el" could define
> `org-activate-cites-and-links', which in turn, would dispatch work to
> either `org-activate-links' or `org-cite-activate'.

A quick temporary fix could be like the attached. Or checking
(org-element-context) instead of direct call to citation parser.

Best,
Ihor