* biblatex citation
@ 2011-08-27 7:10 Thomas S. Dye
2011-08-27 8:16 ` Nick Dokos
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Thomas S. Dye @ 2011-08-27 7:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org-mode
Aloha all,
This biblatex construct:
\parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]{kirch84}
is output like this:
\parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]\{kirch84\}
The biblatex syntax is unusual (to me) in LaTeX. I wonder if it is
possible to support it in Org-mode?
All the best,
Tom
--
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread* Re: biblatex citation 2011-08-27 7:10 biblatex citation Thomas S. Dye @ 2011-08-27 8:16 ` Nick Dokos 2011-08-27 8:52 ` Nick Dokos 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Nick Dokos @ 2011-08-27 8:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Thomas S. Dye; +Cc: nicholas.dokos, Org-mode Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote: > Aloha all, > > This biblatex construct: > \parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]{kirch84} > > is output like this: > \parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]\{kirch84\} > > The biblatex syntax is unusual (to me) in LaTeX. I wonder if it is > possible to support it in Org-mode? > So is the syntax \parencites followed by an arbitrary number of pairs [page#]{ref}? latex export knows to do the right thing for a command with optional and mandatory arguments: \command[opt]{mand} is properly protected, but the above case stretches it to beyond its breaking point. After a quick look, all I could come up with as a possibility was yet another special case in org-export-latex-preprocess - and one more scan of the whole file to add to the many (roughly 20!) that this function does. Nick ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: biblatex citation 2011-08-27 8:16 ` Nick Dokos @ 2011-08-27 8:52 ` Nick Dokos 2011-08-27 9:38 ` Nicolas Goaziou 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Nick Dokos @ 2011-08-27 8:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Thomas S. Dye; +Cc: nicholas.dokos, emacs-orgmode Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote: > Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote: > > > Aloha all, > > > > This biblatex construct: > > \parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]{kirch84} > > > > is output like this: > > \parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]\{kirch84\} > > > > The biblatex syntax is unusual (to me) in LaTeX. I wonder if it is > > possible to support it in Org-mode? > > > > So is the syntax \parencites followed by an arbitrary number of pairs > [page#]{ref}? > > latex export knows to do the right thing for a command with optional and > mandatory arguments: \command[opt]{mand} is properly protected, but the > above case stretches it to beyond its breaking point. > > After a quick look, all I could come up with as a possibility was yet > another special case in org-export-latex-preprocess - and one more scan > of the whole file to add to the many (roughly 20!) that this function > does. > Well, maybe another scan is not necessary: the existing command handler could perhaps be extended to deal with this case. But the regexp in that case is horrendous enough as it is - if it gets any hairier, it will become Medusa: mortals looking at it will drop dead. However it might be that a loop that eats multiple pairs of [...]{...} occurrences would be simple enough to implement. My preferred solution would be for \parencites to change its syntax :-) If it were implemented like this e.g. \parencites{234|kirch85|185|kirch84} it would be easier to type *and* org would be able to handle it out of the box: a win-win for everybody except for the parencites author. Nick ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: biblatex citation 2011-08-27 8:52 ` Nick Dokos @ 2011-08-27 9:38 ` Nicolas Goaziou 2011-08-27 21:12 ` Thomas S. Dye 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Nicolas Goaziou @ 2011-08-27 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: nicholas.dokos; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Hello, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes: > Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote: > >> Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote: >> >> > Aloha all, >> > >> > This biblatex construct: >> > \parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]{kirch84} >> > >> > is output like this: >> > \parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]\{kirch84\} >> > >> > The biblatex syntax is unusual (to me) in LaTeX. I wonder if it is >> > possible to support it in Org-mode? >> > >> >> So is the syntax \parencites followed by an arbitrary number of pairs >> [page#]{ref}? >> >> latex export knows to do the right thing for a command with optional and >> mandatory arguments: \command[opt]{mand} is properly protected, but the >> above case stretches it to beyond its breaking point. >> >> After a quick look, all I could come up with as a possibility was yet >> another special case in org-export-latex-preprocess - and one more scan >> of the whole file to add to the many (roughly 20!) that this function >> does. >> > > Well, maybe another scan is not necessary: the existing command handler > could perhaps be extended to deal with this case. But the regexp in > that case is horrendous enough as it is - if it gets any hairier, it > will become Medusa: mortals looking at it will drop dead. > However it might be that a loop that eats multiple pairs of [...]{...} > occurrences would be simple enough to implement. Note that Org core already recognizes such latex commands, as confirmed by using `org-inside-latex-macro-p' anywhere inside it. In this case, it's just an exporter failure. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: biblatex citation 2011-08-27 9:38 ` Nicolas Goaziou @ 2011-08-27 21:12 ` Thomas S. Dye 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Thomas S. Dye @ 2011-08-27 21:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Nicolas Goaziou; +Cc: nicholas.dokos, emacs-orgmode Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes: > >> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote: >> >>> Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote: >>> >>> > Aloha all, >>> > >>> > This biblatex construct: >>> > \parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]{kirch84} >>> > >>> > is output like this: >>> > \parencites[234]{kirch85}[185]\{kirch84\} >>> > >>> > The biblatex syntax is unusual (to me) in LaTeX. I wonder if it is >>> > possible to support it in Org-mode? >>> > >>> >>> So is the syntax \parencites followed by an arbitrary number of pairs >>> [page#]{ref}? >>> >>> latex export knows to do the right thing for a command with optional and >>> mandatory arguments: \command[opt]{mand} is properly protected, but the >>> above case stretches it to beyond its breaking point. >>> >>> After a quick look, all I could come up with as a possibility was yet >>> another special case in org-export-latex-preprocess - and one more scan >>> of the whole file to add to the many (roughly 20!) that this function >>> does. >>> >> >> Well, maybe another scan is not necessary: the existing command handler >> could perhaps be extended to deal with this case. But the regexp in >> that case is horrendous enough as it is - if it gets any hairier, it >> will become Medusa: mortals looking at it will drop dead. >> However it might be that a loop that eats multiple pairs of [...]{...} >> occurrences would be simple enough to implement. > > Note that Org core already recognizes such latex commands, as confirmed > by using `org-inside-latex-macro-p' anywhere inside it. > > In this case, it's just an exporter failure. > > Regards, Aloha Nick and Nicolas, Thanks for analyzing this problem. Yes, the syntax of \parencites (and various other "multicite" commands in biblatex) allows an arbitrary number of [<pre>][<post>]{<key>} triplets. I haven't seen this before in LaTeX. The biblatex author, Philipp Lehman, came up with this to solve a long-standing problem in BibTeX citations where it was possible to cite multiple works in one citation, but impossible then to indicate page numbers, etc., for individual works. The solutions you've pointed out, a pre-process hook or correcting an exporter failure, both seem beyond me to implement and/or maintain. In the meantime, I came up with a workaround that seems to work. It looks like this in the Org-mode buffer: \parencites[[multicite:<key>][<post>;<pre>]][[multicite:<key>][<post>;<pre>]] It is based on this custom link, which integrates with ebib: #+source: define-biblatex-multicite-link #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent :exports none (org-add-link-type "multicite" 'ebib (lambda (path desc format) (cond ((eq format 'html) (format "(<cite>%s</cite>)" path)) ((eq format 'latex) (if (or (not desc) (equal 0 (search "multicite:" desc))) (format "{%s}" path) (format "[%s][%s]{%s}" (cadr (split-string desc ";")) (car (split-string desc ";")) path)))))) #+end_src All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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