Dear Ihor, thanks for working on this, I agree that the current version, especially the introduction, was too technical, so that is a very good direction to take. Some comments on the proposed changes:
> Org mode will gather citation metadata from =#+bibliography= database > and use it to typeset the exported document in arbitrary formats. > For example, below snippet shows ASCII export output. Hopefully native speakers will chime in, but the phrase "below snippet" sounds strange to me, I feel that "the snippet below" would be a better solution. Also, maybe a "the" could be inserted before "=#+bibliography= database". > Org mode ships with several built-in citation processors tailored to > work with LaTeX export and BiBTeX bibliographies (=bibtex=, > =biblatex=, and =natbib= processors), or with more generic Citation > Style Language bibliographies (=csl= processor). Perhaps the second part of the sentence would be a bit more precise along the following lines: "or with more generic bibliography and citation formats described using/in the Citation Style Language (=csl= processor)" and maybe "Citation Style Language" could link to the CSL site https://citationstyles.org/. > The default citation processor is =basic= - it works with arbitrary > export formats and recognized both BiBTeX and CSL bibliographies. Here I think there is a typo as "recognized" should be "recognizes". > At least one =PRINT_BIBLIOGRAPHY= keyword must be present in the > document to render citations on export. That is not true in general, as the csl processor and most probably some others too can render citations without a bibliography; there are even citation styles (typically, note-based ones) that are designed to work without a bibliography and specify all bibliographic data in citations. Because of this I suggest removing or at least rewriting this sentence. best wishes, András On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 10:44, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > The current version of Citation handling section of the manual is rather > technical. I tried to rewrite it aiming for ordinary users not familiar > with Org mode internals. > > Please, let me know if it reads better. > > > -- > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, > Org mode contributor, > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. > Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, > or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
