On Wednesday 6 December 2023 at 00:41:54 UTC+8 lucabal...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to use a YAML file format, which I consider easier to write and more human-readable w.r.t. bib format, but using the biblatex data model (defined in chapter 2 of BibLaTeX manual, found at ctan/biblatex), which I prefer over CSL data model (defined in appendix III and IV of CSL 1.0.2 specifications).

As far as I understand, by default, pandoc expects (ref. pandoc/manual, sec. Specifying bibliographic data)

BibLaTeX data in a file formatted as .bib
BibTeX data in a file formatted as .bib (and and extension as .bibtex)
CSL data in a file formatted as JSON
CSL data in a file formatted as YAML
RIS data in a file formatted as .ris

Is it a way to use BibLaTeX data model in a YAML formatted file? Is there any caveats? There is a need of a Lua Filter? What does pandoc use to parse .yaml or .bib files and to write those? Where should I begin?

Thanks,
Luca