re: captions, a quick hack is to change line 1373 of oc.el to

((memq type '(nil paragraph keyword)))

This makes my life quite a bit easier.

No doubt this is a bit too broad, though I am not entirely clear on why
there are any restrictions at all on inserting cites.

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 7:29 PM John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> I also see this behavior. I think this should be considered a bug, it is
> pretty common to see citations in a table cell.
>
> Additionally, I cannot insert a citation in a caption that is above a
> table (or a figure), I get
> "user-error: Cannot insert a citation here". That should be considered a
> bug in org-cite--allowed-p  I think. It fails because in the caption the
> context is a table, and it has :post-affiliated item which causes
> org-cite--allowed-p  to return nil.
>
> If I put a citation in the caption anyway, it does seem to get exported
> correctly.
>
> I am not sure why the cites don't export inside the table cell though.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just started playing with citations, but it seems that I've
> > stumbled across a bug where if the citation is in a table cell it will
> > be left "raw". See the following example
> >
> > #+begin_org
> > ,#+begin_src bibtex :tangle activedoc.bib
> > @article{SchulteActiveOrg,
> >          author={Schulte, Eric and Davison, Dan},
> >          journal={Computing in Science Engineering},
> >          title={Active Documents with Org-Mode},
> >          year={2011},
> >          volume={13},
> >          number={3},
> >          pages={66-73},
> >          doi={10.1109/MCSE.2011.41}}
> > ,#+end_src
> >
> > ,#+bibliography: activedoc.bib
> > ,#+print_bibliography:
> >
> > [cite/a:@SchulteActiveOrg]
> >
> > | [cite/a:@SchulteActiveOrg] |
> > #+end_org
> >
> > When exporting to ASCII, I see this:
> >
> > #+begin_example
> > Schulte, Eric, and Dan Davison. 2011. “Active Documents with Org-Mode.”
> > /Computing in Science Engineering/ 13 (3):66–73.
> >
> > (Schulte and Davison 2011)
> >
> > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> >  [cite/a:@SchulteActiveOrg]
> > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> > #+end_example
> >
> > I hope that's enough to go off.
>
>
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