Re: [org-cite] citations in property drawers?

[Bruce D'Arcus]

I'm not going to defend what Nicolas characterized as a "terrible
idea,", but to explain a bit ...

The idea was motivated by wanting to access org-cite activate and
follow functionality from the property drawer; NOT export (which as
Nicolas says, would cause problems).

The current (recently-added) org-roam org-cite/citation implementation
uses '@key' syntax in the property drawers, which works fine for
indexing (to associate citations to notes about a citation source),
but not of course for the other functionality.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 1:02 PM Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That would be a terrible idea. Exporters are not required to handle all
> > data contained in properties drawers, so this may introduce errors,
> > e.g., when trying to number citations.
>
> I agree completely. You can't export something that has no anchor in
> text that would be rendered. Maybe I misunderstood the original
> question, because there is no way that a citation or footnote could be
> exported from there, so I think in your conception text that follows
> the format of the citations or footnotes isn't actually a citation or
> footnote unless it exports as such.
>
> Best,
> Tom