Re: Citation syntax and ODT

[Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com>]

On Monday 23 February 2015 10:45 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote:


I am not a scholar and never in my lifetime have I produced a document
that uses citations.  My knowledge level is pretty much like that of a
layman.  The questions here could be pretty stupid.  So bear with me.

> But whatever style is chosen, I would still think that the fact that the
> citation is in-text rather than parenthetical, and that it has a prefix
> and suffix, should be represented in the output.

1. When you choose 'style' (Chicago etc.) wouldn't be one of in-text
    or parenthetical already chosen for you?  Stated other way, is the
    choice between parenthetical or in-text document-wide or is it that
    one could intermix the two styles in the same document.

2. Citation processor like JabRef just takes a cite-key.  It doesn't
    take a pre or post-note.  So, the pre and post notes should be
    spliced in to the exported document by the elisp module that
    interfaces with the citation processor.

If we are going to interface with a citation-processor, the best
course of action would be to have someone first 'gauge' the
capabilities provided by the citation processor and let that
experience inform what Org should aspire to do.