Citations don't work in tech document abstracts

[jcarpi]

Citations in document abstracts are not displayed correctly. See the sample code below, and the attached generated PDF file.
Note that the citation in the abstract prints to [nasa-latex-docs], as opposed to [1].

% Define Class: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass[template=tech-memo]{nasa-latex-docs} 

% Preamble Section: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


% Add bibliogrpahy file
\addbibresource{test-document.bib}

\docAbstract[
    \cite{nasa-latex-docs}
]

% Main Document Content: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}

\input{tex/sample_content.tex}

\printbibliography

\end{document}
% End of Document %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

test-document.pdf

[bawood2]

@jcarpi What version of tex did you build the report with?

[jcarpi]

@bawood2 TeX Version : TeX 3.141592653 (TeX Live 2021) on MacOS. Is that helpful? Seems like an odd version number...

[bawood2]

Yeah, that helps a lot actually. Ran into the same problem. This issue was introduced in the Oct26 timeframe in another project I'm working in. Cross-checking them, it really doesn't make much sense on why citation in docAbstract doesn't display properly. I think I've narrowed it down to the version of TeX Live being used. Just ran a test, and this works fine with TeX Live 2020:

TeX Version : TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2020)

NASA_Latex_Document.pdf

[bawood2]

@jcarpi Also, the version number looked familiar. Its the digits of pi, for each version of TeX Live, it looks like append the next digit.

[jorgepz]

Hello. I am trying this locally on Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023/Arch Linux) and I am getting the non-numbered format in the entire document. However, I guess it might be helpful to set a CI workflow so that you can see the output for a given set of architectures and/or versions in the cloud before doing any fix/change in the master.

In #25 I am humbly proposing setting the CI (this might correspond in a different issue) and a test document such that before doing any merge the PDF can be visualized as in the artifact on the bottom here. In this case the output is the one mentioned by @jcarpi .