citation syntax

Alan Isaac <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Might it be possible to consider supporting an extension
to the citation syntax?  At the moment, I find myself
often supporting anonymous links to citations by e.g.

   __ isaac-2011-jasss_
   .. [isaac-2011-jasss]_

The reason is that the standard citation reference must occur in the
document if we are to extract the references for processing into
a citation list (e.g., with bibstuff).  It would be nice if we
could just write

   __ [isaac-2011-jasss]_

Would allowing the identifier of indirect links to be in brackets
break things?

Thanks for considering,
Alan Isaac


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