Re: wip-cite status question and feedback

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

M. ‘quintus’ Gülker <post+orgmodeml@guelker.eu> writes:

> The citation object will provide access to all elements of the new
> cite syntax I assume, including things like key, prefix and suffix?

Indeed. Also global prefix and suffix.

> Several styles I am normally confronted with require crossreferencing
> in citation footnotes (example: “Doe (see above Fn. 24), pp. 35-37”).
> Formatting this requires access to the place where an @key first
> occured in a footnote. The full list of citation objects probably
> suffices for that information; on a first thought I would either use
> the first citation object from that list with the @key at hand unequal
> to the active citation object 

This would work. If it is a common need, Org could also provide such
a helper function.

> or use the citation object whose footnote label has the lowest number
> and is unequal to the active citation object (if the list is not
> guaranteed to be in said order). I would prefer the former approach,
> because sometimes I deal with footnotes with numbers like “4a” (a
> footnote inserted at a late stage in the authoring process between
> footnotes 4 and 5), which defeats the lowest-number approach.

Note that export process provides its own footnote numbering, which does
not rely on the label used. See `org-export-get-footnote-number'.

So you can also use the second method.

> For non-footnote-based citations, the “helper function to determine
> the footnote containing a citation” should probably return nil.

Indeed. If there is no footnote definition containing the citation, it
returns nil.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou