Re: wip-cite status question and feedback

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 6:00 PM András Simonyi <andras.simonyi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> apologies for reacting that late (it seems that I messed up my email filtering
> royally) ...

I wondered what happened to you; glad you sorted it out though!

...

> (i) Default ("built in") citation processor in Org
>
> I think citeproc-el could be a reasonable solution for this. The core is
> well-tested (thanks to the CSL test suite), implements a fairly large subset 
> of
> the CSL 1.01 standard, and can output citations in a number of formats 
> including
> in Org syntax. If I understood correctly, this would require citeproc-el to be
> part of Emacs, and not even an ELPA package would suffice. In principle I'm 
> open
> to this, but I'm not familiar with the process and there are potential 
> pitfalls,
> e.g. citeproc-el currently depends on some "modern" libraries, e.g., "s" or
> "dash" which AFAIK are not in Emacs.

It would very cool if you all could figure out how to make this happen.

It would ensure pretty awesome out-of-box functionality.

Bruce