I also see this behavior. I think this should be considered a bug, it is
pretty common to see citations in a table cell.

Additionally, I cannot insert a citation in a caption that is above a
table (or a figure), I get
"user-error: Cannot insert a citation here". That should be considered a
bug in org-cite--allowed-p  I think. It fails because in the caption the
context is a table, and it has :post-affiliated item which causes
org-cite--allowed-p  to return nil.

If I put a citation in the caption anyway, it does seem to get exported
correctly.

I am not sure why the cites don't export inside the table cell though.

Thanks,

Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've just started playing with citations, but it seems that I've
> stumbled across a bug where if the citation is in a table cell it will
> be left "raw". See the following example
>
> #+begin_org
> ,#+begin_src bibtex :tangle activedoc.bib
> @article{SchulteActiveOrg,
>          author={Schulte, Eric and Davison, Dan},
>          journal={Computing in Science Engineering},
>          title={Active Documents with Org-Mode},
>          year={2011},
>          volume={13},
>          number={3},
>          pages={66-73},
>          doi={10.1109/MCSE.2011.41}}
> ,#+end_src
>
> ,#+bibliography: activedoc.bib
> ,#+print_bibliography:
>
> [cite/a:@SchulteActiveOrg]
>
> | [cite/a:@SchulteActiveOrg] |
> #+end_org
>
> When exporting to ASCII, I see this:
>
> #+begin_example
> Schulte, Eric, and Dan Davison. 2011. “Active Documents with Org-Mode.”
> /Computing in Science Engineering/ 13 (3):66–73.
>
> (Schulte and Davison 2011)
>
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
>  [cite/a:@SchulteActiveOrg]
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> #+end_example
>
> I hope that's enough to go off.


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