Re: Citeproc

From: Denis Maier <denis.maier.lists@mailbox.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Citeproc
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 14:55:54 +0200	[thread overview]
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Am 05.10.2020 um 02:47 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>> John MacFarlane, the developper of Pandoc, has released a new Citeproc
>> that generates citations and bibliographies using CSL style files (CSL=
>> citation style language). While it is written in Haskell and while it's
>> primarily intended for use with Pandoc, it can also be used in other
>> contexts. Provided with a JSON encoded list of references via stdin, it
>> can produce formatted output.
> The man page of the new citeproc executable, for those who are 
> interested:
>
> https://github.com/jgm/citeproc/blob/master/man/citeproc.1.md
Thanks for adding this.
>
>> I know that ConTeXt has its own infrastructure to format bibliographies
>> and citations, but, given the enormous amount of available styles in
>> CSL, I nevertheless think that this could be a worthwile addition. What
>> would be necessary to make such a toll usable with ConTeXt? How
>> complicated would that be?
> In principle, this should be trivial. [...]
>
> Note that this scheme has a few drawbacks: [...] But I do agree that 
> it will provide us with the ability to use the large number CSL styles.
Thanks for outlining what would be needed.
> Of course, a better option will be write a CSL processor in Lua, but 
> that is a lot of tedious (but relatively simple) task. I wonder if 
> there is already a CSL processor written in Lua.
Yeah, a Lua citeproc would be the best way to go. I contemplated some 
time ago doing this as a learning project, but I have serious doubts I'd 
be able to actually produce something usable by others. There was one 
being developped, but a computer hazard destroyed it somewhere along the 
way Besides, the person who did it told me Lua has somd shortcomings 
that make it a suboptimal tool for this task. But I can't really tell...

Best,
Denis

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