Re: WIP: better citation processing

[Denis Maier <denis.maier.lists-cl+VPiYnx/1AfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org>]

Posting back to the list... Maybe someone else has opinions regarding 
the title case question.


Am 17.09.2020 um 21:18 schrieb Denis Maier:
> Regarding ConTeXt: I'll have a look.
>
> Title-casing: I think adopting biblatex's behavior would be 
> reasonable. I.e., skip the conversion for non-English items. I'd 
> assume those to be entered according to the conventions of their 
> language. Everything else would just be a mistake. I don't think that 
> distinction exists in many languages other than English.
>
>
> Am 17.09.2020 um 19:53 schrieb John MacFarlane:
>> John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>>> Question:  if the reference contains `language: de-DE`, should
>>> that prevent titlecase transformations automatically, even if
>>> the locale for the style is en-US?
>> Sorry, this question was confused.  Just for background:
>> in converting bibtex to CSL references, we do a sentence case
>> transformation, since CSL references are assumed to be in
>> sentence case.
>>
>> That transformation lowercases the German nouns unless
>> they're protected with {} in the bibtex.
>>
>> Perhaps the question to ask is whether the sentence-case
>> transformation should be skipped for references that have
>> language = {german} (or other non-English) in their
>> biblatex entries.  My view is that it should not be
>> skipped, because bitex bibliographies may use title case
>> even for foreign titles, but I'm not completely sure.
>>
>> As for adding to ConTeXt, I'll put that on the list too.
>> The LaTeX changes define these macros:
>>
>> ```
>> \newlength{\cslhangindent}
>> \setlength{\cslhangindent}{1.5em}
>> \newlength{\csllabelwidth}
>> \setlength{\csllabelwidth}{3em}
>> \newenvironment{CSLReferences}[3] % #1 hanging-ident, #2 entry sp
>>   {% turn on hanging indent if param 1 is 1
>>    \ifodd #1 
>> \everypar{\setlength{\hangindent}{\cslhangindent}}\ignorespaces\fi
>>    % set line spacing
>>    % set entry spacing
>>    \ifnum #2 > 0
>>    \setlength{\parskip}{#3\baselineskip}
>>    \fi
>>   }%
>>   {}
>> \usepackage{calc} % for \widthof, \maxof
>> \newcommand{\CSLBlock}[1]{#1\hfill\break}
>> \newcommand{\CSLLeftMargin}[1]{\parbox[t]{\maxof{\widthof{#1}}{\csllabelwidth}}{#1}} 
>>
>> \newcommand{\CSLRightInline}[1]{\parbox[t]{\linewidth}{#1}}
>> \newcommand{\CSLIndent}[1]{\hspace{\cslhangindent}#1}
>> ```
>>
>> So it would just be a matter of creating similar macros that
>> work in ConTeXt, and telling the ConTeXt writer to use them.
>> I can do the latter if you do the former.
> I'll have a look!
>

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