From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Denis Maier <maier.de@gmail.com>
Cc: "András Simonyi" <andras.simonyi@gmail.com>,
"emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org-cite (oc-csl) tip: Filtering bibliography for language
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:46:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsdajqtg.fsf@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aed1754c-9fa8-f2a6-5bd3-15d518ce59f0@mailbox.org>
Denis Maier writes:
> Am 19.12.2022 um 23:20 schrieb András Simonyi:
>> ... I've forgotten to add that another (probably more user friendly)
>> option would be to design and implement some kind of filtering DSL.
>> András
>> On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 23:05, András Simonyi
>> <andras.simonyi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 15:49, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Refinements welcome. I'm especially wondering what would be an elegant
>>>> way to generalize this for more languages without defining a predicate
>>>> for each language (given that we cannot pass the language as an
>>>> additional argument in the print_bibliography line).
>>>
>>> Thanks for describing this usage! As for the problem of generalizing
>>> to more languages, one relatively simple solution would be to allow
>>> arbitrary sexps as filters. Then one could write something like
>>>
>>> #+print_bibliography: :filter (lambda (item) (bibitem-has-language item "en")))
>>>
>>> Would this type of extension be helpful? One (not necessarily
>>> important) consequence would be that filters of this type would be
>>> obviously unusable with the biblatex exporter.
>>>
>>> best wishes,
>>> András
>
> I'd say both options are certainly useful. A filtering DSL is surely
> the more user friendly option, but allowing lambda expressions would
> probably be quicker to implement, and it would also allow for
> predicates not anticipated by DSL designers.
>
> Best,
> Denis
Arbitrary sexps would give us more flexibility. Alternately, one could
achieve more or less the same by letting :filter collect any additional
arguments and pass them as &rest to the user's predicate function,
something like:
#+PRINT_BIBLIOGRAPHY: :filter bibitem-lang-p nb nn no :type article
(This perhaps makes for cleaner solutions. And it is perhaps slightly
better from a security viewpoint: I hope for a bright future of
collaborative authoring in Org, so I'm wary of proliferating ways to
execute arbitrary elisp that a user might not notice. But we do have
such ways already, and it's possible to abuse the above solution as
well, so I don't know.)
Alternatively, I think there is a case for adding a user-friendly
:language property to the print_bibliography keyword. On my bookshelf it
vies with primary/secondary sources as the most common criterion for
separate bibliographies.
I was going to say that this is the only extension I can think of that
is needed beside :(not)(csl)type and :(not)keyword, but of course people
are sooner or later going to want easy-to-use properties to filter by
author, publication date ranges, and probably other criteria I cannot
think of right now, so it's a strategic decision for the maintainer(s)
if you want to go that way. :-)
Yours,
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-20 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-19 14:48 Org-cite (oc-csl) tip: Filtering bibliography for language Christian Moe
2022-12-19 22:05 ` András Simonyi
2022-12-19 22:20 ` András Simonyi
2022-12-20 8:23 ` Denis Maier
2022-12-20 9:47 ` András Simonyi
2022-12-20 10:22 ` Timothy
2022-12-20 10:46 ` Christian Moe [this message]
2023-01-18 19:39 ` András Simonyi
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