Re: [wip-cite-new] Merging tomorrow?

[Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com>]

Hi Nicolas,

In light of all the thoughts expressed on referencing, I no longer think it's a
good idea to have referencing capabilities in wip-cite-new.

I think referencing should get a bit of attention, as citation has here, but a
much smaller separate effort now appears more appropriate to me. This could be
as simple as a way of handling links to named images/tables/etc. when
exporting.

Update: I see wip-cite-new has been merged 🎉. Still sending this
because I think my sentiment is worth sharing and I'd like to prompt a
discussion on references (I'll probably give this a bit of a think then
start a new thread in a few days).

--
Timothy

William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:

> On 8 July 2021, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>
>> And the implementation challenges raised by John Kitchin and Joost
>> Kremers (namely the candidate list is different) make this better to
>> deal with using a different mechanism.
>>
>> As a package developer that supports org-cite, I really don't want to
>> be worrying about internal references and such.
>>
>> And as a user, I don't see the benefit of doing so.
>>
>> Effectively, these seem more like org internal links.
>
> I agree with all this.  Personally, I'd never expect a citation system like this
> to handle internal references.  The way librarians think about citations and
> referencing, these are different.
>
>
> Bill


--
Timothy