Re: org-cite and org-citeproc

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> writes:

> However, there are a couple of other scenarios to think about:
>
> 1) Some people may still need to use plain BibTeX.  Generating LaTeX
> that is intended to be processed with BibTeX, as opposed to BibLaTeX, is
> a little trickier, because (IIUC) BibTeX does not support multi-cite
> citations.

I know next to nothing about citations in general, so please bear with
me: if multi-cite support means being able to condense citations (e.g.
[1-3, 5, 9]), then bibtex can do at least some of that
(e.g. http://texblog.org/2007/05/28/mulitple-reference-citation/).

> Also, I don't know how easy it would be to capture the other
> features of citations (e.g., the in-text vs. parenthetical distinction)
> without relying on a package like natbib.  If generating
> BibTeX-compatible LaTeX is needed, is it OK to rely on such a package?
>

IMO yes.

Nick