Hi, very good to see these things are getting discussed again. (Back then, I have been following the citation syntax discussion from a distance rather then participating actively, so that's my first post here.)
It would be great if Org had a closer integration with a Citeproc. This would be a huge improvement for those who use Emacs and Org for academic writing. Anyway, concerning this: > Speaking of which, I read about the "citation modes", which may be preferred > over "suppress author". What are these citation modes? How do you combine > them if "suppress author" is one of the "citation modes". Bruce has already sent a link to Pandoc's org-mode Reader where you can find the citation modes. The standard (markdown) implementation can be found here: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/f2b337768e95c8903f65e597f7d8cd81938dacc3/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Markdown.hs Anyway, currently there are basically three modes: - NormalCitation - SuppressAuthor - AuthorInText At the moment, there is no way to combine modes. A simple markdown sample: #+BEGIN_SRC [@doe] [-@doe] @doe argues ... -@doe [23] #+END_SRC Gives: #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE [Para [Cite [Citation {citationId = "doe", citationPrefix = [], citationSuffix = [], citationMode = NormalCitation, citationNoteNum = 0, citationHash = 0}] [Str "[@doe]"]] ,Para [Cite [Citation {citationId = "doe", citationPrefix = [], citationSuffix = [], citationMode = SuppressAuthor, citationNoteNum = 0, citationHash = 0}] [Str "[-@doe]"]] ,Para [Cite [Citation {citationId = "doe", citationPrefix = [], citationSuffix = [], citationMode = AuthorInText, citationNoteNum = 0, citationHash = 0}] [Str "@doe"],Space,Str "argues",Space,Str "\8230"] ,Para [Cite [Citation {citationId = "doe", citationPrefix = [], citationSuffix = [Str "23"], citationMode = SuppressAuthor, citationNoteNum = 0, citationHash = 0}] [Str "@doe",Space,Str "[23]"]] #+END_EXAMPLE So: [@doe] => NormalCitation [-@doe] => SuppressAuthor @doe argues ... => AuthorInText -@doe [23] => SuppressAuthor I do admit that this last example is a bit pointless, but it shows a point. => SuppressAuthor takes precedence over the other modes in both cases. Depending on CSL's future development there might well be other citations modes. I personally think there's much to learn from biblatex, but that's a different debate... Best, Denis
