Re: Citeproc CSL formating overriden by Latex?

[and0 <andrejpreradovic-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Thank you for the explanation latk!
I've now gotten the formating I wanted by wrapping the bibliography in 
\hangparas. That's good enough for now, as I had to create my own CSL style 
and I don't want to have to recreate it in Biblatex for this paper. I'll 
look into doing that later though, so that I can use the Pandoc -> LaTeX 
route you suggested. Thank you!



On Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 11:37:24 AM UTC+2, latk wrote:
>
> Pandoc's CSL engine is fairly limited, just like Pandoc itself. The CSL 
> engine produces normal Pandoc elements, it does not directly produce LaTeX. 
> Pandoc's data model does not describe indentation. Consequently, any 
> indentation in the CSL file will be ignored, and LaTeX will apply normal 
> paragraph styles.
>
> The solution is to manually insert necessary LaTeX formatting commands 
> just before the place where the bibliography will be inserted. 
> Alternatively, use a LaTeX-native bibliography system such as biblatex. 
> This doesn't let you use CSL, but this avoids Pandoc limitations.
>
> Personally, I stick with citeproc for short reports where the exact 
> bibliography rendering isn't that important. But in most cases, using 
> Pandoc as the first stage of a normal LaTeX compilation process is more 
> sensible.
>
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 19:56, and0 <andrejpr...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I'm currently writing an academic paper as a .md file, then converting it 
>> to .pdf using the following command: 
>>
>> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex --filter pandoc-citeproc metadata/meta.yaml 
>> --template mytemplate.latex -s paper.md -o export/out.pdf
>>
>> meta.yaml contains a link to my .bib file (as well as other things). So 
>> far everything has worked fine, but now I've run into an issue regarding 
>> the formating of my bibliography. I've created a .csl file defining what I 
>> want things to look like, but some elements seem to either be ignored by 
>> citeproc or overriden later. My main issue is indentation: The main text 
>> should have the first line of a paragraph indented, which I'm achieving 
>> through indent = true
>> in my meta.yaml. The bibliography on the other hand should only use 
>> hanging indents, which I have specified in my .csl file.
>>
>> The thing is, when I run pandoc, the bibliography in the resulting pdf 
>> has indent = true applied to it as well, which messes up the entire 
>> formating. I've exported my paper to .latex and didn't see any formating 
>> related to lines in the code (only things like \emph and \textsc), so 
>> XeLaTeX just treats the entries as another paragraph and indents their 
>> first lines. This whole issue of settings in my .csl being overriden also 
>> happens with line spacing for example (I've set linestretch = 1.5 in my 
>> meta.yaml so that's what I'm getting in the bibliography).
>>
>> So now I'm wondering: Is this a bug? Or am I approaching this wrong? I 
>> can sort of understand why citeproc doesn't apply my .csl line settings, 
>> but on the other hand I feel it's a bit inconsistent since it applies *most 
>> *of the .csl. Is there a solution for this or should I be using 
>> --biblatex to export a .tex file and then converting it via XeLaTeX?
>>
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