Hi everyone,

I thought I should send an update to let you know that org-citeproc [1],
the command-line citation processing tool I've been working on, now
supports multi-cites.  I believe that means it is now capable of
processing all citations in the basic citation syntax.  It can output
plain text, HTML, and ODT (and a Pandoc native format, mostly useful for
debugging).

org-citeproc hooks up with the Org exporters via Aaron Ecay's org-cite [2]
library, so that it is possible to export a document containing
citations as text, HTML, or ODT.  A sample Org document, bib file, CSL file,
and outputs are attached.

I am pretty convinced at this point that the approach that the
combination of org-cite and org-citeproc represents is viable, even if
org-citeproc is not the tool (or one of the tools) that the Org
community eventually adopts.  If you'd like to help out with developing
it, here are some things that would be useful:

1) If you are comfortable building a Haskell program and running an
unstable branch of Org, it would be great to have people test org-cite
and org-citeproc with more realistic documents, and with other CSL
files.  The basic things work, but there are surely many corner cases to
be weeded out.

2) If you know Haskell, I would appreciate feedback on the org-citeproc
code.  I am pretty new to Haskell and suspect there is a lot in my code
that could be cleaned up or made more idiomatic.

3) If you know Elisp, there are plenty of things still TODO in
org-cite.el.  I haven't hacked on this much except to get it working
with org-citeproc.

4) I would also be interested in seeing a parallel implementation in
org-cite of citation processing via Zotero.  I think the infrastructure
org-cite provides should make it relatively easy to get something like
this working, perhaps in combination with the zotxt plugin.  This would
provide two benefits: it would help prove the org-cite API is general
enough, and it would provide an alternative to org-citeproc for people
who already have a CSL implementation (namely Zotero) installed and
don't want to build/install a separate Haskell program just to process
citations.

Here's the code:

[1] https://github.com/wyleyr/org-citeproc
[2] https://github.com/wyleyr/org-mode  (This branch contains the version
of org-cite needed to work with org-citeproc.)

Thanks for looking!

Best,
Richard