Re: wip-cite status question and feedback

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:47 PM Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think what would be ideal, would be if common citation styles could
> define a method which produces a display string, like "Goaziou et al.
> (2021)". If nothing is defined, then no overlay should be produced.

Make sense, but with a caveat: not all styles work well for preview.

Might be worth looking at how the Zettle markdown editor implements
citations in general, as it's well-done, well-documented, and gone
through a few iterations.

It uses pandoc for the citations syntax and processing.

https://docs.zettlr.com/en/academic/citations/

If point is within the citation brackets, you see the raw syntax, so
you can edit it.

Once you are outside the brackets, having already inserted the
citation, you see a preview of the output.

Examples; the top raw, bottom previewed version of the same.

[@doe19]
(Doe, 2019)

Aside: this is somewhat similar to Nicolas' demo.

That preview is always the same author-date style, regardless of the
output style selected.

So if you choose a footnote-based style for export, you still see the
author-date preview.

This makes sense, because the purpose is only to confirm you have the
right citation.

You also have a "references" sidebar that shows you a previewed list
of all cited references.

Bruce