Re: Manual suggestion and experience report from a new user (citation processors, 9.5)

[Leszek Wroński]

Thank you very much! I will explore more. The keys are correct. On
reopening the .org file, the behavior is now consistent: clicking on
any citation does nothing :-) I will try to experiment with your
processor. I did manage to configure org-ref-cite to open PDFs a few
months ago, but when trying to combine it with org-roam and helm I
managed to screw up my configuration and so I'm now starting from
scratch more carefully.

Best regards,

Leszek.

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 19:00, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Forgot to reply-all ...
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:36 AM Leszek Wroński <elwro1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been using Emacs for about 20 years, but I'm only now starting to
> > seriously explore the Org-mode, since I read about the new citation
> > options. I'd like to report my initial experience since maybe this
> > could lead to some amendments to the manual?
>
> Your suggestions make a lot of sense.
>
> > Another thing: the way the citations work is inconsistent for me at
> > this point. In some cases, a click on a citation opens my library.bib
> > at the relevant entry. In other cases, nothing happens (i.e. nothing
> > that I can see.) On what could this depend?
>
> I don't know. Is the key by chance wrong?
>
> > Ideally I'd like a click on a citation to open the PDF whose location
> > is stored in the 'file' field of the .bib entry: is there an easy way
> > to achieve this? [I've tried various ways of doing this in the last
> > 10+ years, including org-ref, RefTex etc., but am I correct in
> > assuming that currently the idea is that one should only use the
> > Org-mode for such things?]
>
> As for the "follow" functionality you're asking about, this is mostly
> what third party processors are for; "oc-basic" is intentionally
> "basic".
>
> This landscape is still new, but my oc-bibtex-actions one allows you,
> for example, to use embark to run different actions from an org-cite
> citation. By default it will open associated documents or links.
>
> https://github.com/bdarcus/bibtex-actions
>
> John Kitchin's org-ref-cite does similar with a hydra menu, though I'm
> unsure of his plans for the package.
>
> https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref-cite
>
> Bruce