On Mon, Aug 02, 2021, Oliver Corff wrote: > Hello Peter, > > since you have demonstrated with mom how to extend the standard, if not > to say "frozen" capabilities of the macros for refer(1), and with regard > to the offline conversation we already had on the topic of bibliography > styles, what would be your verdict on the idea to isolate the > bibliography processing part (that is, understand %c fields and > formatting) and put everything into a macro package of its own, perhaps > with an interface to introducing more bibliography styles? From your > perspective as the creator of a full-fledged macro package, what are the > caveats?
The only real issue would be establishing the most efficient way to make the different biblio styles available to the various macro packages. Without bothering to check (it's a holiday in Canada today and I intend not to work), piggy-backing on the existent refer-mm/ms/me.tmac and refer.tmac arrangement might do the trick. The one caveat is that bibliography style is intimately linked with citation style, so switching to a style different from a macro package's default might require changes within the package's tmac file as well. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
