Re: org-cite citation commands

[Vikas Rawal]

Thanks. This is very useful.

Vikas

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 03:55:18PM +0200, András Simonyi wrote:
> Dear Vikas,
>
> the CSL-based processor is in a bit of a flux in this respect, but as
> for the natbib and biblatex processors I've extracted these
> correspondences from the oc source code, which you might find useful.
> (With the exception of the first, "fully nil" styles, one always has
> to use the "/" separator between "cite" and the listed combinations,
> for the default styles this means a double slash, e.g.,  [cite//b@key]
> leads to  \citealp{key} using the natbib processor.
>
> * Natbib
>
> ;; default style.
>                                 --> \citep
> / [bare|b]                      --> \citealp
> / [caps|c]                      --> \Citep
> / [full|f]                      --> \citep*
> / [bare-caps|bc]                --> \Citealp
> / [bare-full|bf]                --> \citealp*
> / [caps-full|cf]                --> \Citep*
> / [bare-caps-full|bcf]          --> \Citealp*
>
> ;; author style.
> [author|a] / [caps|c]           --> \Citeauthor
> [author|a] / [full|f]           --> \citeauthor*
> [author|a]                      --> \citeauthor
>
> ;; noauthor style
> [noauthor|na] / [bare|b]        --> \citeyear
> [noauthor|na]                   --> \citeyearpar
>
> ;; nocite style.
> [nocite|n]                      --> \nocite
>
> ;; text style.
> [text|t] / [bare|b]             --> \citealt
> [text|t] / [caps|c]             --> \Citet
> [text|t] / [full|f]             --> \citet*
> [text|t] / [bare-caps|bc]       --> \Citealt
> [text|t] / [bare-full|bf]       --> \citealt*
> [text|t] / [caps-full|cf]       --> \Citet*
> [text|t] / [bare-caps-full|bcf] --> \Citealt*
> [text|t]                        --> \citet
>
> * biblatex
>
> ;; Default nil style.
>                               --> autocite
> / [bare|b]                    --> cite
> / [caps|c]                    --> Autocite
> / [bare-caps|b]               --> Cite
>
> ;; author style.
> [author|a] / [caps|c])        --> Citeauthor*
> [author|a] / [full|f])        --> citeauthor
> [author|a] / [caps-full|cf]   --> Citeauthor
> [author|a]                    --> citeauthor*
>
> ;; locators style.
> [locators|l] / [bare|b]       --> notecite
> [locators|l] / [caps|c]       --> Pnotecite
> [locators|l] / [bare-caps|bc] --> Notecite
> [locators|l]                  --> pnotecite
>
> ;; noauthor style.
> [noauthor|na]                 --> autocite*
>
> ;; nocite style.
> [nocite|n]                    --> nocite
>
> ;; text style.
> [text|t] / [caps|c])          --> Textcite
> [text|t]                      --> textcite
>
> best regards,
> András
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 at 13:41, Vikas Rawal <vikasrawal@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have been a long time user of org-ref and am excited to see the
> > development of org-cite. Thanks a lot for this, Nicholas and others
> > who have been working on this. I have been wanting to give it a spin
> > for the last few days and finally got down to doing it.
> >
> > I am aware that the documentation is still in the works and therefore
> > my apologies in advance if asking these questions is premature. I have
> > looked at Nicholas' mails which provide basic documentation and have
> > been trying to follow these.
> >
> > What is the equivalent here of the various citation commands that something 
> > like biblatex or bibtex provide? The two most common citation commands I 
> > use are citet and citep (or parencite). These are used to produce the 
> > following kind of output using org-ref/biblatex:
> >
> >
> > -----
> > * citet
> >
> > citet:john is an excellent resource.
> >
> > will be exported as:
> >
> > John (1990) is an excellent resource.
> >
> > * citep
> >
> > This is an excellent resource citep:john.
> >
> > will be exported as
> >
> > This is an excellent resource (John, 1990).
> >
> > ----
> >
> > How does one achieve this using org-cite?
> >
> > I am a bit lost with the citation styles that are inbuilt in 
> > oc-biblatex.el. Is it expected that we will have to write additional 
> > citation styles for getting these kinds of output?
> >
> > Apologies if this is a naive or a premature question.
> >
> > Many thanks to everyone.
> >
> > Vikas
> >
>