When I saw the title of this thread, I was hoping that "better citation 
processing" might mean new features, so news of 1.0.2 and 1.1 is quite 
welcome. I thought  CSL development ended years ago with 1.0.1. It seemed 
that they weren't interested in supporting a broad range of domains and in 
non-English citation formats—95% is good enough. Since CSL could never 
format all my citations, I switched to BibLaTeX and stopped reading the 
forums. I still use CSL with pandoc for smaller works that I have to 
deliver in word processor format, manually writing the citations it can't 
handle. A CSL (or at least pandoc) equivalent to BibLaTeX's \mancite would 
be useful.

On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 11:58:12 AM UTC+2, Denis Maier wrote:
>
> Great to hear we'll soon be able to test the new citeproc. 
>
>  >  it should be straightforward to improve it further. It will be 
> easier to maintain than pandoc-citeproc, more accurate, and faster. 
>
> That sounds amazing. As you know CSL 1.0.2 is about to appear soon, and 
> 1.1 is also already pretty advanced. It would be great if it were easy 
> to integrate the new features in your library. 
>
> Best, 
> Denis 
>
> Am 17.08.2020 um 00:59 schrieb John MacFarlane: 
> > I've been working this summer on a replacement to pandoc-citeproc. 
> > 
> > Part of this is a new library, citeproc, which is 
> > not specific to pandoc. This already passes a larger portion 
> > of the CSL test suite than pandoc-citeproc, and it should be 
> > straightforward to improve it further. It will be easier to 
> > maintain than pandoc-citeproc, more accurate, and faster. 
> > 
> > I've used this library to create a new filter, 
> > new-pandoc-citeproc, which now passes most of the pandoc-citeproc 
> > test suite but runs around 6 times faster. 
> > 
> > I'm inclined, though, not to release this as a new filter, 
> > but instead to depend on the citeproc library and build the 
> > citation processing capabilities into pandoc itself. This will 
> > cut down the binaries we need to distribute from two to one, and 
> > it will simplify things for users, who won't have to worry about 
> > filters. It will also be more performant, as we'll avoid the 
> > overhead of JSON serialization and deserialization. 
> > 
> > I'm not quite ready to release any of this code, but I hope 
> > to do so in the next month or two.  This is just a teaser. 
> > 
> > The new library is pure Haskell and won't depend on bibutils 
> > (a wrapper around a C library).  That means we'll only support 
> > bibtex/biblatex, pandoc yaml, and CSL JSON as bibliography 
> > formats.  Those who need others will have to convert them using 
> > standalone bibutils.  But support for other formats was never 
> > great, so I don't think this is a big loss. 
> > 
>
>

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