Exporting links to annotations with page and line number (or similar) about org-pdftools HOT 7 CLOSED

This feature would be even more useful when exporting to plain text. 🙏

Currently I get quoted text followed by absolute path to PDF in parentheses which is not really useful.

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Should be possible, will take a look tomorrow.

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@tmalsburg emm a question: how could I know the which line the link is referring to? I cannot see obvious ways to get that..

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I'm not familiar with pdftools capabilities in this area, so I'm not sure. But giving at least the page number would be a very good start. Thinking about this a bit more, it might be good to allow users to configure the precise format. I'd prefer something like:

„This is a quote from a German manuscript“ (Seite 7)

Note the German quoting style. ("Seite 7" means page 7). But others obviously want something else.

And perhaps this format should actually be used when creating the org link, not when exporting. The benefit is that you can leave exporting untouched and all is handled during link creation. Plus, what we see in org is more faithful to what we get in the exported document.

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@tmalsburg That makes sense! I'll see what I can do

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@tmalsburg You can now use your own description generation function!
One wild idea could be using the filename (which could also be a bibtex-key) to query bibtex-completion and get a formated citation!
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Hi thank you so much. Love it!

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