Re: A minor suggestion about formatting citations

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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you should probably trim each key, and re-add spaces where you want them in
the function that does these kinds of things. Maybe that should even be
controlled by a defcustom that allows 0-1 spaces.

John

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On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 9:38 AM Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 5:40 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Vikas Rawal <vikasrawal@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I find it works better for me if I insert spaces between multiple
> > > citations. For example: [cite: @john56; @john35; @bruce2021] rather
> > > than [cite:@john56;@john35;@bruce2021].
> > >
> > > The of advantage is that if I am citing many references in one place,
> > > and use fill-paragraph/auto-fill, they wrap nicely. As far as I can
> > > see, having spaces in between works just fine.
> > >
> > > If this does not break anything, should this be the recommended
> > > practice for the org-cite-insert-processors?
> >
> > Done, at least for insert processors relying on
> > `org-cite-make-insert-processor'. Thank you.
>
> There is one little issue I see.
>
> Org-ref, and in turn org-ref-cite, have functions, attached via keymap
> on the citation face, that allow one to shift the citation-references
> within a citation.
>
> I've borrowed some of that for oc-bibtex-actions as well.
>
> So if I insert a citation using org-cite-insert, I get this:
>
> [cite:@samers2002; @kohn2005]
>
> If I then shift the right one left, I get this, which seems less than
> ideal:
>
> [cite: @kohn2005;@samers2002;]
>
> WDYT?
>
> Bruce
>
>

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