CSL code to bibtex citations styles?

[Mike Marchywka]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:30:18PM +0800, Zeping Lee wrote:
>    In practical it’s impossible to convert a CSL style to BibTeX (.bst) style.
> 
>    The bst language doesn’t provide enough features to implement CSL’s

btw, is XML really a good language to describe what amounts to
algorithms? Its good for a bunch of parameters and data but
adding logic sounds kind of odd. I guess LISP for windoh's users
was not an option although I guess an invented language, heck
even a stack based thing like postscript or FORTh ( or bst lol )
may have been better. Any comments on the culture behind this?
It may be a better topic for a flame war but always curious
why these things get adopted.

Thanks. 


> 
>    complex specifications. For example, there are no data types like list or
> 
>    hash map so it’s difficult to disambiguate names as required by CSL.
> 
>    If you want to use CSL with LaTeX, you may consider
>    [https://ctan.org/pkg/citation-style-language]https://ctan.org/pkg/citation-style-language. I started this package not
>    long ago and some CSL features are not implemented yet.
>    Zeping Lee
>    Beijing, China
>    E-mail: [mailto:zepinglee at gmail.com]zepinglee at gmail.com
> 
>    On Jun 12, 2022, at 19:38, Mike Marchywka <[mailto:marchywka at hotmail.com]marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:56:13AM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> 
>        see for example a discussion of biblatex v csl at
>        [[https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/434946/citation-style-language-vs-biblatex-vs-possibly-other-citing-systems]
>      https:]https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/434946/citation-style-language-vs-biblatex-vs-possibly-other-citing-syste
>      ms]https:
>        //[http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/434946/citation-style-language-vs-biblatex-vs-possibly-other-citing-systems]
>      tex.stackexchange.com/questions/434946/citation-style-language-vs-biblatex-vs-possibly-other-citing-systems
> 
>    Thanks,
>    I guess the excerpt from your link  is pretty close,
>    but AFAICT it sounds like you should be
>    able to generate a bst file from the CSL ? So I guess the specific
>    question still remains, " can you generate a bst file from the CSL?"
>    \begin{quote}
>    I'm the creator of CSL, which I originally created for very simple reasons:
>    While I used LaTeX, I work in a field which requires Word-compatible files; LaTeX not accepted.
>    I saw no reason why such styling needed to be tightly-coupled to the output format. So my prototype XSLT implementation had
>    output drivers for LaTeX (bypassing BibTeX), HTML, and RTF, IIRC. I found that worked pretty well and so was a
>    proof-of-concept (I used it to format my first book), and has since remained a priority.
>    One additional advantage of that output flexibility is a much larger potential user base for CSL styles, which in turn can
>    lead to many more supported styles.
>    I have a lot of respect for biblatex though; it's a great solution if you can work exclusively in LaTeX.
>    But you probably want to use CSL if you need non-LaTeX output targets.
>    \end{quote}
> 
>        On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 at 11:39, Mike Marchywka
>      <[[mailto:marchywka at hotmail.com]mailto:marchywka at hotmail.com][mailto:marchywka at hotmail.com]marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
>          I was browsing the Zotero webforum, still nothing I have submitted
>          as a post or reply has been published lol, and
>          ran into this site that apparently creates xml descriptions
>          of citation formats. For example,
>          [[https://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zotero.org%2Fstyles%2Fapa]https://editor.cit
>      ation]https://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zotero.org%2Fstyles%2Fapa]https://editor.cit
>      ation
>          [http://styles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zotero.org%2Fstyles%2Fapa]styles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http%
>      3A%2F%2Fwww.zotero.org%2Fstyles%2Fapa
>          IS there some utility to translate this stuff into bibtex
>          or is that some other descrption language commonly used?
>          I was still playing around with generalized bibliographies,
>          adaptation to "bill of materials" and it seems languages
>          like this may be useful.
>          I've noticed with TooBib many places are making it harder to
>          download webpages with wget and reliance on headless
>          chrome, I have made a utility called Chromate, seems important
>          now.  Any other automated tools running into problems?
>          Still have not gotten the Zotero web form to work with any
>          pdf file however...
>          Thanks.
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>    mike marchywka
>    306 charles cox
>    canton GA 30115
>    USA, Earth
>    [mailto:marchywka at hotmail.com]marchywka at hotmail.com
>    404-788-1216
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