Support Pandoc citation syntax

Suggested by Mara & SkepticMystic on Discord #plugins

See https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#citations

We’ll need to a) add a setting to specify a database file b) parse [@foo, p. 33] syntax into whatever Pandoc likes best c) add a --citeproc option to the CLI commands d) …

This will be enormously helpful in conjunction with Zotero and the Obsidian citation plugin

This may be a fair bit of work. I’ll tentatively mark it for the 0.2.0 release and push it back a week or two if needed (possibly after submission to the community plugins list).

[cobblepot1]

I was pointed here from the Obsidian #academic Discord. Supporting Pandoc citations would be huge for me and many others!

[OliverBalfour]

Hi @damienbelveze, @cobblepot1, @argenos, Using citations in this plugin is now possible!

It’s just a little fiddly at the moment. I’ve tested using BibTeX citations with the --citeproc filter on version 0.2.2 but it might work on earlier versions.

Here’s a tutorial explaining the fiddly bits: https://github.com/OliverBalfour/obsidian-pandoc/wiki/Citations-(work-in-progress)

The main caveat is you can either get Pandoc markdown extensions like citations, or Obsidian markdown extensions/plugin features, but not both. I’ll think of ways to work around this if it becomes a pain point.

If you have any suggestions for improving this process or the documentation, I’m open to ideas.