Re: converting from and to a new bibliographic format in pandoc

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

'blocks' is for the body of the document. We store the reference data in the metadata.  In this case it's all references, so no body.

The 'nocite' entry causes all the references to be included in the bibliography if you process this with --citeproc.  We include that by default so that you can do e.g.

pandoc my.bib -s -o my.html --citeproc

and get a formatted HTML bibliography with all the references.


> On Jul 26, 2022, at 4:47 AM, A A <amine.aboufirass-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear John,
> Indeed, I see that there is an internal representation in the form of a Meta object. I made a dummy bibliography with 4 entries. After converting to JSON the following structure was apparent:
> 
> {
>     "pandoc-api-version": [...],
>     "meta": {
>         "nocite": {...}
>         "references":  {...}      
>     },
>     "blocks": []
> }
> 
> references contains a list of MetaMapswhich contain the recognizable BibTeX data. blocks is empty and nocite contains some additional data which I don’t understand.
> 
> What is the role of nocite and blocks in this AST?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Amine
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 18:01, John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> If you do `pandoc yourbib.bib -t native -s` then you'll see how pandoc represents bibiographies in its AST.  All you need to do, then, is have your custom reader create this sort of structure in the metadata.
> 
> 
> 
> > On Jul 25, 2022, at 6:14 AM, A A <amine.aboufirass-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Suppose that I would like to define my own markup format, something that is not currently supported by pandoc. I could in theory write my own reader and writer in Lua, making use of pandoc's AST elements, and would then be able to convert to and from this new format to other recognized formats.
> > 
> > I'd like to know whether the same can be said of bibliographic formats. Suppose I have a new one that I would like to bake into pandoc. Since the bibliography seems to be decoupled from the AST, what would be the best way to do this?
> > 
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