Re: org-cite and pandoc

[Bruce D'Arcus]

Yeah, ideally ox-pandoc would be updated to support org-cite.

I also, FYI, submitted an issue to pandoc awhile ago to update it's
org-cite support (it has support for an early draft).

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7329

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 10:07 AM Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> I am needing to export a document, written in org using the new cite
> syntax, to pandoc (native).  The export fails.  I realise that org-cite
> is new and I don't expect the export to process any [cite:@key] lines
> properly but it would be good to have the export at least generate a
> pandoc file I can then work with.  Is this possible?
>
> I recognise fully that ox-pandoc is in contrib so I don't expect
> anything as such!  In the meantime, I'll simply remove all [cite:]
> entries but I thought I'd raise this issue.
>
> The error (with paths elided and lines truncated) I get is:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp ("..."))
>   split-string(("...") "\n")
>   (cons (car it) (split-string val "\n"))
>   (list (cons (car it) (split-string val "\n")))
>   (progn (list (cons (car it) (split-string val "\n"))))
>   (if val (progn (list (cons (car it) (split-string val "\n")))))
>   (let ((val (plist-get info (cdr it)))) (if val (progn (list (cons (car it) 
> (split-string val "\n"))))))
>   (closure ((info :export-options nil :back-end ...
>   mapcar((closure ((info :export-options nil :back-end #s(org-export-backend 
> :name pandoc
>   (apply 'append (mapcar #'(lambda (it) (ignore it) (let ((val (plist-get 
> info ...)))
>   (org-pandoc-put-options (apply 'append (mapcar #'(lambda (it) (ignore it)
>   org-pandoc-template(#("#+cite_export: natbi..." [...]))
>   org-export-as(pandoc nil nil nil (:output-file "paper.tmpLAj6YU.org"))
>   org-export-to-file(pandoc "paper.tmpLAj6YU.org"
>   org-pandoc-export(native nil nil nil nil nil 0)
>   org-pandoc-export-to-native-and-open(nil nil nil nil)
>   org-export-dispatch(nil)
>   funcall-interactively(org-export-dispatch nil)
>   command-execute(org-export-dispatch)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> Thank you,
> eric
>
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> : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.6-607-g185706
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