On 12/12/2013 03:50 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:59 AM, PhilipPirrip <p...@net.hr
<mailto:p...@net.hr>> wrote:
Why is it so? How difficult would it be to extend the code for
bibtex to biblatex? Could you make this a GSOC project for the
next year, at least?
Thank you.
GSoC for 2014 sounds like a good idea. But my impression (hopefully
mistaken) is that biblatex support is a bit too "easy" for a full GSoC
slot. At least compared to the projects we went for this year. Can any
developer confirm and perhaps provide a minimal description of what's
needed? I could start putting together a project description on that
basis.
This may be hard and it may be very hard, but it definitely is not
trivial. A lot of the necessary work was done by Julien when he
modularized the citation stuff. That makes it possible to have modules
that declare different citation commands and then to use them in a
document. But the very different ways that natbib and biblatex declare
styles and then the print bibliography itself, the different types of
styles that biblatex has, etc, etc---none of that has been touched yet.
And that will be a fair amount of work.
Richard