On 2015-10-26, at 00:03, Aaron Ecay <aarone...@gmail.com> wrote: > - The only “off the shelf”-capable citation processing library that we > found last time is in Haskell, which introduced some difficulties for > distributing the resulting tool. I know some projects > (e.g. git-annex) are written in Haskell and distributed as static > binaries for windows/mac/linux/etc. We’d need to figure out how to do > this, or find another citation processing library in an > easier-to-distribute language. (I should say, all the work on the > external tool was done by Richard Lawrence; I worked on the exporter > for the citation syntax including the interface with an external > tool.)
This is probably a very naive question, but wouldn't it be possible to have a pure Elisp tool? I understand that lack of manpower may be the main problem; are there any others? > - There is a difference between citations as done by latex/bibtex/etc., > and those done in every other format (handled through CSL). Assuming > latex users want to keep their native processing rather than > delegating to CSL, we need to solve the myriad small inconsistencies > between these two tools. I think this is an area where it’s important > to get things right: users of citations generally have exacting > requirements. “Approximately Chicago-style” or “almost MLA” aren’t > worth anything. Out of curiosity: what is CSL? Best, (and count me in the number of people who say a big Thank you), -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University