Re: wip-cite status question and feedback

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

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org-ref relies very heavily on the link functionality to provide actions on
a cite, e.g. to open the pdf, or url, allow sorting, to change the cite
color when it is a bad key, etc If the new syntax also has that capability,
e.g. through font-lock, then I would consider integrating it into org-ref,
but if not I think it would be a big regression in org-ref functionality.

If I were to dream, each cite would have text-properties that include the
key (so it is easy to get the key at point and do something with info in
the corresponding database), and a help-echo function that could be
user-defined, a face function that could be user-defined, a user-defined
keymap, and some properties that define the bounds of the cite. While at
it, maybe it is a good idea to allow a custom display, so one could toggle
between a short cite (e.g. number or author year) and the full cites. These
do not need to be part of the implementation, but if they were possible
from the implementation it would be a lot more useful for something like
org-ref.

It would be a gain in quality of export, especially for non-LaTeX documents
though, if there was an integrated citeproc.

For the bibliography you need to support a few variants, IMO. One is
bibtex-like, where you specify the source of the bibliography(ies) in the
place where you want it to appear. The other is biblatex like, where the
bibliography(ies) can be specified in a header or as properties, and you
have another way to specify where in the document you want the bibliography
to be.

It should also be possible to have no bibliography, but the correct
citations. And it should be possible to have the bibliography go to another
file.

Finally, the most common thing I do is use a default bibliography that is
defined in a variable in my init file. This lets me put citations in
org-files conveniently, but I almost never export these as they are usually
just notes.

If that all seemed possible, most likely it would make sense to start a new
generation of org-ref that largely eliminated the links. I would probably
still have to keep label and the ref links. There is not currently a way to
reference equations otherwise. Tables and Figures seem ok with native org
links.

A new org-ref wouldn't happen fast, I guess it would be a year long
project. But a clean slate would have some advantages to clean up and
consolidate some things.

John

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On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:19 AM Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:32 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Note that in CSL processors, the locators are meaningful key-values,
> > > basically; not plain text strings.
> >
> > OK, but it is enough for Org to feed a CSL processor with, e.g.,
> >
> >   key    -> "@doe99"
> >   prefix -> "see "
> >   suffix -> ", pp. 33-35"
> >
> > Then CSL processor does its job to extract whatever information it
> > needs. Am I right?
>
> On this, I would defer to András and Albert (who maintains the pandoc
> org code, I believe).
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> Bruce
>

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