M. ‘quintus’ Gülker <post+orgmodeml@guelker.eu> writes:

>> It sounds reasonable to allow macros inside citation references.
>> Maybe we also want to allow other things. Maybe simply allow all objects
>> but other citations, line-breaks, and table-cells?
>
> I have no strong opinion on this. I certainly do not need tables inside
> citations. If it is easy to just permit everything except what you
> named, I would say just allow it. Maybe someone has use for it. Maybe
> footnotes inside [cite:] construct should also not be allowed, at least
> for footnote-based styles.

See the attached WIP patch.
Note that I also removed link as our tests explicitly test against
having links inside citation references.

However, I can see how links can be useful in prefix/suffix...
I am wondering what was the rationale behind disallowing so many objects
inside citation references.