How do I create a back-reference link in the bibliography to the last specific citation clicked on?

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Hi everyone, I’m new to typst and to programming in general, sorry if this is dumb. Is there way to use the retrofit package in a way that each bibliography item on the list shows a back-reference link to the last clicked citation, insteand of it listing the pages in which the citation appear? perhaps modifying something in the show rule?

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Hi @Leonardo_Lamha,

a back-reference link to the last clicked citation is not possible inside a PDF file, as PDF is a (normally) static medium and can’t do stuff dynamically.
Most PDF viewers provide keyboard shortcuts to jump back to the last clicked reference:
Acrobat: Alt + Left arrow
Firefox: Alt + Left arrow
Okular: Alt + Shift + Left arrow

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Hi @flokl, thank you very much for the reply.

Since there’s support for general movement between headings, footnotes and references in PDFs, I thought it was possible to modify the mentioned package a bit for the not so tech savy (academic professors in the humanities, in my case) to be able to go back and forth a citation/reference list in PDF with just a mouse click (like the package), perhaps through locations functions. Oh well…

Thanks, anyway!