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Subject: Re: Citation syntax: a revised proposal
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To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>, Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>
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Hi Nicolas,

2015ko otsailak 15an, Nicolas Goaziou-ek idatzi zuen:
> Perhaps. But [cite: ... |latex: :cap t |html: :cap t] isn't impossible
> to write either.

It violates DRY.  It (thus) makes it annoying to export a document to a
new backend: you have to search through all the citations and copy any
:cap keys to the new backend.

Crazy idea: what if there was a =E2=80=9Croot=E2=80=9D backend from which a=
ll other
backends were derived?  This would maintain consistency with existing
attribute syntax (and possibly new, as proposed below), but also allow
certain attributes to be passed to all backends.

>=20
> Anyway, time for another proposal. In fact, it seems that it would be
> better to externalize these properties, e.g.,
>=20
>   [cite: ...]{latex :prop val}{html :prop val}
>=20
> or
>=20
>   [cite: ...]{latex :prop val | html :prop val}
>=20
> No space allowed between the citation and the attributes. The big
> advantage with this is that it can be extended to other objects while
> still being backward-compatible.
>=20
> It would solve one long standing limitation:
>=20
>  Text [[file:img1.png]]{html :width 50px} and
>  [[file:img2.png]]{html :width 60 px}

Nice, I like it.

Thanks,

--=20
Aaron Ecay