Re: Citations, continued

[Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>]

Hi Nicolas and all,

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>
>   - in-text citation
>
>       [KEY] or [KEY suffix]
>
>     [@item1] or [@item1 p. 30] or [@item1 p. 30, with suffix]
>
>   - out-text citation
>
>       [cite: prefix? key suffix?; prefix2? key2 suffix2? ...]
>
>     [cite: see @item1 p. 34-35] or [cite: @item1 pp. 33, 35-37, and
>     nowhere else] or [cite: -@item1 p. 44] or even [cite: see @item1 p.
>     34-35; also @item3 chap. 3]
>
> IMO it is quite readable.

Yes, I like this better than your first proposal, or the citet/citep approach.

But doesn't the first case pose the same performance problems as the
Pandoc syntax, since it does away with the tag?  Or are you thinking
it's easier to parse because the key occurs immediately after the
bracket, without a prefix...?

Best,
Richard