Re: Pandoc doesn't define references in PDF output with --biblatex (or --natbib)

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John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> [2018-06-12 18:02 +0200]:
> Pandoc doesn't run bibtex/biber for you when producing
> a PDF.  If you use pandoc-citeproc, you can get a nice
> bibliography in PDF output (and maybe that's what you
> were doing when it worked before), but if you want to use
> native biblatex, you'll have to produce a .tex file
> and run latex and biber yourself.
> 
> Note:  it's helpful to search closed issues before
> submitting a report.  You would have found #4105,
> #1193, #681, #2795, ...

Thanks for the quick answer! I saw the explanation of the --biblatex
option in the manual, but was so certain I could remember Pandoc doing
this. Turns my usage of rmarkdown/knitr, which *does* handle this, had
contaminated my memory (and led me to only look for recent issues).

However, Pandoc(-citeproc)'s implementation of CSL styles still has a
long way to go in terms of customisation and styling. If the PDF output
has indented paragraphs, bibliography entries will be styled the same
way. I've posted a hack to deal with this:
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/335#issuecomment-396739093 I don't
know what you think about including anything like in the LaTeX template?

(I understand that better support for CSL attributes are not a priority,
but I think it's a problem when something as simple a paragraph
indentation breaks the styling.)

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Per