Re: Citeproc

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 10/5/2020 2:55 PM, Denis Maier wrote:
> 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...
if it's an xml spec then using lua makes not that much sense (no gain) 
.. just process the xml

Hans

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