Re: wip-cite status question and feedback

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Wed, Apr 08 2020, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:13 PM Joost Kremers 
> <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> What would help, BTW, is if there's an easy way to find out 
>> what
>> the bibliography file or files are that are associated with the
>> current Org buffer.
>
> I guess the simplest and most flexible option would be to 
> specify the
> bib file in the header?
>
> So if present use that; otherwise use the global bib file(s) 
> specified
> in the init?

That sounds like a good approach, yes. I don't know if Org would 
want to support having different bib files for different headers 
(i.e., be able to specify bib files in a :PROPERTIES: block). I 
believe that would be a bad idea, but who knows?

For my purpose, the best thing would be to have a function that 
returns a list of bibliography files for the current buffer (or 
header, if you want to go that way). That way, I wouldn't have to 
come up with my own (bug-prone) way of figuring out what bib files 
a user expects a particular Org file to use. Since (presumably) 
such a function is going to be needed anyway for exporting, it 
would be a simple matter of making that function public (i.e., 
name it with one dash, not two).

Thanks,

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Joost Kremers
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