Re: TMIO July Post: Introducing Citations

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

>>>>> Timothy  <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:

    > Hi Colin,
    >> Nice work. For me, however, I’m still at a loss, although I
    >> confess I’ve not kept up to-date with the org citation
    >> developments.
    >> 
    >> 1. I don’t understand the relation between the new cite syntax
    >> and the old org-mode . Perhaps there isn’t one.
    >> 
    >> 2. How is an `org-link-abbrev-alist' related to a global and/or
    >> local #+bibliography:? Even if I remove reference to my
    >> `org-link-abbrev-alist' the org-export (to pdf) still does not
    >> find a different local bibliography file. (I have
    >> org-cite-global-bibliography set to nil.)

    > I think the confusion you have lies in the similarity between the
    > link syntax and cite syntax — the new `[cite:@key]' citations are
    > *not* links.  Hopefully that makes them a this a bit clearer :)

Ah! Now that's helpful - thanks.