Nicolas Goaziou <[email protected]> writes:
> Richard Lawrence <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> What's the next step here? Adding support for multiple references?
>> multi-cites? `&'-keys?
>
> To support multi cites, we must first decide how the parsed will present
> information, i.e., what are the properties in the following case
>
> [cite:pre; pre1 @k1 post1; pre2 @k2 post2; post]
I was actually looking at this today and wondering why this was not
supported.
I think a citation object should always member of a citations object. So
the above would be
(citations (:begin n :end N :prefix pre :suffix post
:citations
'((citation (:key k1 :begin n1 :end N1 :prefix pre1))
(citation (:key k2 :begin n2 :end N2 :prefix pre2 :suffix
post2)))))
This makes it naturally to operate over one many citations. I don't know
if this should be some sort of pseudo-object or what. Also, one issue I
ran into when trying to get [@k1; @k2] working was that @k2 is recognized
as an inline citation (which means that I probably did something wrong)...
Of course, a quasi-tricky part (I think) is that [cite: pre @key post]
should be (with no "global" :prefix and :suffix):
(citations (:begin n :end N
:citations
'((citation (:key key :begin n1 :end N1 :prefix pre :suffix
post)))))
Which imply that citations are parsed from "the middle" and outwards.
Nicolas: I wrote a patch for subtypes (with "/" as a separator as most
people seemed to like that). Should I post it or will you take care of it
eventually? I don't know if you have got a game-plan in mind?
[I also have other outstanding patches, so I just want to put my limited
Org-time where it makes sense].
Cheers,
Rasmus
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