Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal

[Richard Lawrence]

Hi Avram,

Avram Lyon <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:16 PM Richard Lawrence <
> address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Is there any reason to go with citeproc-java over a different CSL
>> implementation, like citeproc-js or pandoc-citeproc?  I am a little
>> nervous about shelling out to something that sounds it like it requires
>> loading the JVM...
>
> citeproc-java just calls citeproc-js from Rhino or Nashorn, so there's
> little reason to go with citeproc-java for any application not already
> running on the JVM.

Hmm, good to know.

> Zotero is indeed using citeproc-js directly from XULrunner/Firefox, and
> that is the best-supported usage of the library.
>
> If you're looking for something with citation management and CSL proessing,
> perhaps zotxt is best. If you just want CSL processing, it would be best to
> run citeproc-js by itself (there is a citeproc-node, but it's not quite
> plug-and-play).

That sounds right.  And I agree with Aaron that we probably don't want a
hard dependency on Zotero on the output side, so maybe citeproc-js is
the way to go.  On the other hand, as Aaron points out, citeproc-java
has a BibTeX parser, and citeproc-js doesn't look like it would be easy
to run from the command line...some sort of JS engine is required in
addition to citeproc-js itself.

I wonder if citeproc-js would run under Guile??  Maybe that would be the
easiest way to turn citeproc-js into a lightweight command line utility
that Org (and hence Emacs) could feel good about depending on.
 
Best,
Richard