pandoc-style citations

[Alex Fenton <alex.fenton@pressure.to>]

Hello,

I see that there were several extensive and fruitful discussions on this 
list last year on citation syntax. There seemed to be a reasonable 
degree of consensus that pandoc-style citation syntax was at the least a 
good model.

I'd like to know if there are any implementations out there of elisp to 
parse pandoc citation syntax and turn it into latex \cites. My question 
is not so much "when/if this will be in org mode" but rather whether 
there's something I can drop in now (likely as a link type).

I have a lot of longish citations with multiple references each with 
their own pre- and post- ("'blah blah blah @ref1, p.23, also @ref2, for 
a contrary view see @ref3 pp148-152") that end up as \cites. However my 
home-brew link solution, stuffing the multiple pre- and posts- with 
separator into the link description is unwieldy - difficult to write, 
hard to read and easy to get wrong or breaking output.

thanks
alex