Re: Bibliographic styling

Richard,

Would it be possible to step back a level and work on it in combination
with CSL? https://citationstyles.org/ That way, it would not just be
limited to CMOS. (Although having CMOS would be a major bonus for me.)
The Github repo for the CSL styles are
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles
There are a few on that list I would find extremely helpful.

Peter

On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 12:43, Norman Tovey-Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Richard Hamilton <[email protected]> writes:
> > I’m thinking of taking on the task of creating a docbook
> > customization, similar to the iso690 customization, to process
> > bibliographic information in the Chicago Manual of Style format.
> >
> > Before I dive in head first, I thought I’d check with the group to see
> > if anyone has already done that.
>
> I wonder if it would be possible to describe the format in some
> declarative way and either derive the stylesheet from that or interpret
> it?
>
> I looked briefly at doing that with BibTeX once, but that seemed a
> little too challenging for the amount of free time that I have (which is
> generally measured in negative numbers).
>
> > To streamline the markup of inline references to bibliographic
> > entries, I wonder whether it would stretch the standard too far to
> > interpret a linkend in a citetitle as pointing to a bibliographic
> > reference and process it as though it were a biblioref immediately
> > following the citetitle. So, for example,
> >
> > <citetitlef pubwork=“book” linkend=“ref.stayton2007”>DocBook XSL: The
> Complete Guide</citetitle>
> >
> > would be interpreted as equivalent to <citetitle
> > pubwork=“book”>DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide</citetitle><biblioref
> > linkend=“ref.stayton2007”/>
>
> That doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. What I tend to do myself, however,
> is just the following:
>
> <biblioref linkend="ref.stayton2007"/>
>
> Which I then render inline as the title from the bibliography entry with
> whatever styling seems appropriate. Saves me from having to type the
> titles each time.
>
> > But, to take it a step further, how about interpreting <citetitle
> > pubwork=“book” linkend=“ref.stayton2007”/> the same way, but pulling
> > the title from the referenced biblioentry/bibliomixed element when the
> > citetitle element is empty.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> That’s what biblioref is for? :-)
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
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