Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal

[Rasmus]

address@hidden (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I have noticed tex4ht manages to do "proper" citations in odt.  Perhaps we
>> can study the resulting xml and how it adds a entries.  Formatting is
>> tricky...  Perhaps only zotero is useful here.
>
> IIUC, tex4ht uses the dvi (device independent format of Knuth) file
> produced by LaTeX.  Thus, it is able to take advantage of the work of
> sophisticated citations managers built on bibtex.  I think of it,
> perhaps naively, as a program that can be configured to generate dvi
> drivers for odt, html, xml, etc.

Thanks.

The point I was trying to raise is that it adds "proper" citations in LO.
That means a citation is a gray "field" rather than white "plaintext".
Much like the macro \citet{·} differs from plaintext "A (Y)" in LaTeX.

—Rasmus

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