Re: wip-cite status question and feedback

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 9:31 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
> > In my mind, "opening" leads to the bibliography reference, not to the
> > original document. IIUC, in this situation, the location does not matter
> > much, does it?
> >
> > In any case, Org has no clue about the "location" of the citation. It
> > can provide the suffix associated to the citation key, but it is up to
> > the citation processor to extract page information out of it. If this is
> > desirable, we need to provide the full citation object instead of the
> > key. I don't know if it is worth the trouble.
>
> From my experience using org-ref for citations, going to the
> bibliography reference is rarely useful. Most of time, I want to jump to
> the document I am citing (or even page in the document).
>
> I think that full citation object should be worth passing to the
> citation backend.

I agree.

FWIW, this is how the pandoc API describes this point, which I believe
is consistent with Nicolas' meaning of "citation objects"?

"a list of Citations (each of which may have multiple CitationItems)."

Bruce