Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> writes:
> The question:
>
> In any given document, do you typically need more than two types of
> citations, i.e. {citet, citep} OR {textcite, parentcite}?
>
> I do use other citation types, in particular a genitive version of
> textcite, but not very often. That was why I initially wanted something
> like this:
>
> simple inline: @KEY
> complex inline: [PRE @KEY POST :key VAL]
> parent: (PRE @KEY POST :key VAL)
>
> Where :type was the only key I was clever enough to think about (heavily
> biased by LaTeX). Then you would be able to put in the top of your
> document what "inline" and that "parent" means. Note, as Nicolas rightly
> pointed out that (ยท) shouldn't be used for syntax, so the above is to
> understand needs. In any case, if you, or Eric, or anybody else for that
> matter, often rely on much more than two types of citations in any given
> document perhaps this is better:
>
> [TYPE: PRE @KEY POST :key VAL]
>
> :key VAL may not be needed at all (but e.g. the new cool
> \textcites()()[][]{} commands have even more arguments). That's
> essentially the "generalized link" you were talking about earlier.
This is an important issue indeed.
It seems to me that :type is a LaTeX-only feature and, as such, should
be handled in "ox-latex". In the general case, I think that Org should
only support inline and parenthesized citations.
If more than two different keys are needed in a single document, use of
custom links or raw LaTeX would then be unavoidable. OTOH, this gives us
very readable citations within the buffer in most cases.
