Re: citations: named in source, auto-numbered in result

Guenter Milde <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2014-02-13, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote:
> Dear Docutils folks:

> I want to spell my citations like this in the source: [Smith-2008]_,
> and then have them rendered as auto-numbers in the resulting html and
> pdf. My investigations so far have not indicated that this is
> implemented. Is that right?

This is not implemented in the core, but there are several extensions/hacks
that you can try.

> Would you be interested in maintaining this as an option in docutils?

My preference would be to have a citation system with a database for
references and automatic generation of the references list similar to
what LaTeX/BibTeX offers.

Have a look at
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/dev/todo.html#footnote-citation-gathering
(and other places mentioning "citation" in this TODO file to see the
current state of pre-planning.

Günter


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