Re: org-cite-list-bibliography-files

[Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de>]

On 2021-07-25 Sun 17:14, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:47 AM Titus von der Malsburg
> <malsburg@posteo.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
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>> I’m starting to learn about org’s new capabilities for citations and bibliographies.  Exciting, and great work!
>>
>> Two suggestions/requests:
>>
>> 1. `org-cite-list-bibliography-files' returns the bibliographies defined locally and the globally defined bibliographies together.  I propose to only list the local bibliographies, if defined, and to return the global bibliographies otherwise.  I think the user needs a way to override the global setting if necessary.  For example, when I work on a manuscript, I’d like to use that manuscript’s dedicated bibliography, but ignore my global bibliography.  It’s very common to work with dedicated bibliographies IME, and the UI of oc-basic doesn’t show from which bibliography an entry is coming.  So there’s no way to reliably select entries from just the dedicated/local bibliography.
>
> There was a thread here last week on this, and we realized that one
> can already override this behavior.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2021-07/msg00499.html
>
> # Local Variables:
> # org-cite-global-bibliography: nil
> # End:

Sure, that’s always possible.  However, my suspicion is that users in the majority of cases want /just/ the local bibliography when they specify one.  If true, a better default would be to only return the local bibliography.  Personally, I can’t think of a use case where you would like to use a mix of multiple bibliographies, local and global, especially where there is no way to see from which bibliography each entry is coming.  What about duplicates, for instance, i.e. entries that exist in multiple bibliographies?

  Titus