My intuition is that crossrefs are separate from the citations. In org-ref, they are separate link types like ref:xxx, pageref:xxx. eqref:xxx, etc. They also use a different source of candidates than cites do.
John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin (he/him/his) Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 7:16 AM Bruce D'Arcus <bdar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 6:26 AM Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Timothy <tecos...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Bruce D'Arcus <bdar...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > >>> wip-cite-new deals with citing from bibliographies, but I don't > think it > > >>> deals with within-document referencing --- should it? > > > > > >> 1. Should it? > > >> 1. Maybe. > > > > > > I feel like it would fit. With everything that's been done for > > > citations, this feels like it may be a rather minor addition (or at > > > least this is what I hope). > > > > > >> 2. Can it? Could the design be extended to include internal > referencing? > > >> 2. I think so. You'd just need a way to include internal targets in > > >> addition to the citation-references (keys); for illustration, > > >> something like [cite:#some-if]. > > > > > > I can't claim to have thought about this that much either, but > something > > > like [cite:#some-fig] would seem to fit. > > > > > >> 3. If yes to both, should that hold back merger now? > > >> 3. No. > > > > > > I don't think this should hold up the merge either, but it's relevant > in > > > the overall nature of the feature and perhaps could be shoehorned in > > > following the merge? I feel like this is one small quite simple case > and > > > most of the thinking required has already been done. I'm not sure > > > though, I'd go with whatever Nic's thought are on this. > > > > At this point, I don't have enough understanding of the problem to have > > an opinion. IIUC, your example does not even mention citations. How > > should it be used, what should be the output in LaTeX, and in UTF-8 > > export? This is not clear to me. > > > > What can I say however is: if this feature implies to change, or extend, > > syntax, then it is /de facto/ a blocker for the merge, and needs to be > > sorted out. > > As I was hinting, I don't know this area well either. > > I think the first question is the "should" one; whether this is > in-scope of this module. > > I wasn't sure, so said "maybe". > > Joost says "no." > > In latex, such internal references are not citations though; they use > a different mechanism. > > Does that not suggest, Timothy, that this might be out-of-scope for > this module; that Joost is right? > > Bruce > >
