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.
>