Re: Citation not inserted as 1st item in footnote (using org-cite and org-ref-cite)

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Elias Bounatirou <elias.bounatirou@gmail.com> writes:

> I have looked at the problem that citations cannot be inserted as 1st items
> in footnotes once again more closely. It has become obvious for me that
> this is indeed a bug of org-cite or rather a default setting which was
> deliberately introduced, although it is not really user-friendly or
> practical to my mind.

This is not intentional.

> I modified the function org-cite--allowed-p in oc.el  and inserted
> 'footnote-definition' in the following lines:
>
> ;; Paragraphs and blank lines at top of document are fine.
>      ((memq type '(nil paragraph footnote-definition)))

This allows one to insert a citation in the middle of the citation
number, which is not desirable either. IOW, an additional check is
required.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou