Thanks for the tip.
Today what I tried for this worked fine. This will export an org file to
an org file, but transform all the cite type links into pandoc format,
including pre/post text if you put that in the link description with ::
as a separator. Then you could run that org file through pandoc. It
looks like this would work for any export that can use pandoc citations,
with a simple redefinition of the derived backend.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun pandoc-cite-format (link contents info)
(if (-contains? org-ref-cite-types (org-element-property :type link))
(cond
;; link with description
((org-element-property :contents-begin link)
(let* ((contents (buffer-substring
(org-element-property :contents-begin link)
(org-element-property :contents-end link)))
(split (split-string contents "::"))
(pre-text (nth 0 split))
(post-text (nth 1 split)))
(concat
"[@" (org-element-property :path link)
(when pre-text (concat ", " pre-text))
(when post-text (concat ", " post-text))
"]"
)
))
;; plain citations
(t
(concat "["
(mapconcat (lambda (key) (concat "@" key))
(split-string (org-element-property :path link) ",")
"; ")
"]")))
;; not a cite link. just return the original link
(org-org-identity link contents info)))
(org-export-define-derived-backend 'pandoc-org 'org
:translate-alist '((link . pandoc-cite-format)))
(find-file (org-export-to-file 'pandoc-org "org-to-org.org"))
#+END_SRC
Nick Dokos writes:
> John Kitchin <johnrkitc...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> All the discussion about citations has gotten me thinking. It is easy
>> enough to export cite links to the pandoc format, including pre and post
>> text. I have done a proof of concept of this in a markdown export.
>>
>> I would like to do an org export to org, with the goal of the exported
>> org document to no longer have cite:KEY1,KEY2 but rather [@KEY1; @KEY2]. So
>> far my
>> investigations of exporting org to org have not led anywhere; the links are
>> untouched, even with an org format option in the link definition.
>>
>> Are links ignored in an org export to org? If not, is there some trick
>> to converting them to another format?
>>
>
> ox-org.el defines the org backend with (link . org-org-identity) -
> actually just about everything is tied to org-org-identity (with a few
> exceptions of course). Maybe you can derive a backend which munges links
> appropriately (for some value of "appropriately")?
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