Bibentry-like support?

[bdarcus]

This isn't specific to this processor, but is relevant to it, and possibly related functionality here and in citeproc-el.

Someone on reddit is asking for \bibentry support in the natbib output.

I had previously noted that in CSL, you can get this output at the style level (by choosing a style that substitutes the bib config for the citation), but in thinking about that, it's not really ideal.

WDYT about adding a new "entry" or some such style that works across the three main processors?

• natbib (\bibentry)
• biblatex (\fullcite)
• csl/citeproc-el (just do it directly)

The only wrinkle I see is the \nobibliography bit the OP notes. Is that easy enough to address? If I read it right, it sounds like they addressed this by adding a :noprint parameter to #+printbibliography, which seems the right solution, if a little awkward (print vs noprint).

PS - I put in the FSF assignment email, so I can more easily do patches.

[andras-simonyi]

Thanks for the suggestion, this is obviously a valid use case and shouldn't be difficult to implement. Disregarding the \nobibliography problem for the bib(la)tex processors and concentrating only on CSL, some details have to be worked out:

• should it be possible to use this new citation style/variant while still having normal citations and a bibliography as well?
• if the answer is positive to the first question then should the generated full references contain disambiguation elements if the bibliography entry does (e.g., suffix)?
• how would this variant render several citation keys in one citation, e.g., what type of separator should be used?

[bdarcus]

Tentative:

• yes (assuming biblatex allows this; it does seem logical to me whether to print the bib is orthogonal, though I assume natbib links them?)
• no
• (it would be a "style"; not a "variant") I forgot to check, but how does biblatex handle it? Perhaps a semi-colon (or rather, use the citation delimiter?)?

[andras-simonyi]

another thing I've forgotten to add: as usual, how much sense using this functionality might make will depend on the CSL style: e.g., with a numeric style by default the entry will contain a leading number (which one?) which doesn't make much sense in this context. (They could be removed, of course, but I'm not sure whether it's worth the effort.)

[bdarcus]

For numeric styles, just ignore the number?

[bdarcus]

I just saw this on reddit; very cool.

#+title: CV
#+cite_export: biblatex 
#+bibliography: /path/to/my.bib

Some text here. [cite/n:@*]

#+print_bibliography: