Re: [PATCH][oc-csl] Improve reference parsing

[András Simonyi]

Dear All,

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 06:10, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
> This will render e.g. strike-through empty.
> Note that citation references may contain the following Org markup objects:
> '(bold code entity italic
>   latex-fragment strike-through subscript
>   superscript underline verbatim)

thanks for pointing out the problem!! I've attached a new version of
the patch, in which the custom exporter backend has an (in many cases
trivial) translator for all currently allowed objects.

> And we may add more, as discussed in
> https://orgmode.org/list/87k04xhhw3.fsf@localhost

I don't think that it would make much sense to add a lot more, with
the possible exception of links, since citations are at most
sentence-sized textual units, not to mention the possible
complications arising for the existing export processors. (What type
of objects could the various LaTeX-based exporters support without
complex changes?)  Since CSL has only a few types of formatting
attributes (font-style, font-variant, font-weight, text-decoration and
vertical-align), if the set of allowed object is radically expanded
then it will probably be more reasonable to define a derived backed,
maybe based on the ascii exporter, but I feel that the current set
doesn't require this solution.

thanks & best wishes,
András

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