Hi Colin,

> Nice work. For me, however, I’m still at a loss, although I confess I’ve
> not kept up to-date with the org citation developments.
>
> 1. I don’t understand the relation between the new cite syntax and the old
> org-mode . Perhaps there isn’t one.
>
> 2. How is an `org-link-abbrev-alist' related to a global and/or local
> #+bibliography:? Even if I remove reference to my `org-link-abbrev-alist'
> the org-export (to pdf) still does not find a different local bibliography
> file. (I have org-cite-global-bibliography set to nil.)

I think the confusion you have lies in the similarity between the link syntax
and cite syntax — the new `[cite:@key]' citations are *not* links.
Hopefully that makes them a this a bit clearer :)

All the best,
Timothy