Re: [FR] A more general case than footnotes

[Karl Fogel]

On 02 Nov 2023, Suhail Singh wrote:
> Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:
>
> > My original announcement post from a year ago [2] is a good 
> > place to get a quick
> > overview of how oref.el works.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > [2] 
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-humanities/2022-10/msg00009.html
>
> > From [2]:
> > Thus, in "jones-interview.org" you might have this:
> >
> > Blah blah blah and then she said that the rockets had reached 
> > speeds
> > of .3c in testing scenarios on a few occasions.  [ref:1c3a90a9]
>
> Is it intended to be [ref:1c3a90a9] or is it supposed to be
> [[ref:1c3a90a9]] (i.e., a regular link without description)?

The former: [ref:1c3a90a9]

oref.el isn't specific to Org Mode -- it's for use with any 
text-based format.  In fact, our company's typical usage involves 
references that cross between text files of different formats: 
e.g., LaTeX <--> Markdown, Org <--> DocBook Lite XML, etc.

Now, "[[ref:1c3a90a9]]" contains "[ref:1c3a90a9]" of course, so in 
an Org Mode file one could format oref origin links as regular Org 
Mode links without descriptions.  But personally I find that I'm 
never doing that -- I just put "[ref:1c3a90a9]".

> On a related note, how are the references exported?

There is no provision for exporting.  That's an Org Mode concept, 
but not an oref.el concept.

Best regards,
-Karl