Multiple bibliography files

[azrdev]

I'm writing markdown, converting it to latex, and like to add multiple BibLaTeX bibliography files. Thus I added --biblatex to the command line, and removed the --filter pandoc-citeproc argument.

• If I use multiple --bibliography arguments to pandoc, only the first one is used, i.e. the result is \bibliography{file1}.
• If I use a yaml list in the metadata, no \bibliography{} statement will be generated thanks to #1661

> pandoc --version
pandoc 1.12.3.3
...
> pandoc-citeproc --version
pandoc-citeproc 0.3.1

[nkalvi]

Could you please update to current version (1.32.2) and test it? I could test it if you could share some test files.

Pandoc-citeproc is at version 0.6

[lierdakil]

First, please update, 1.12.3.3 is more than a yead old. Second, you can use pandoc ... -V biblio-files=file1,file2 instead of --bibliography, which should work nicely in your case.

Please also understand that template variables (set with -V) and YAML metadata are two completely separate concepts. --bibliography setting both is just a compatibility hack.

[lierdakil]

@nkalvi 1.32.2? :laughing: typo, eh?

Latest Pandoc version is 1.13.2

[nkalvi]

:blush: This much Pandoc activity is intoxicating.

[azrdev]

@lierdakil thanks! -V biblio-files works as expected, i.e. inserts \bibliography{file1.bib,file2.bib}.

The distinction you make w.r.t. metadata blocks is new to me, cannot find it in the readme: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block only gives an example of setting author, so maybe you should make that more clear.

As for the versions: 1.13 is shipped with current Fedora 21.

[lierdakil]

@azrdev, see http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#templates . You may also notice that README does not say anything about using --bibliography with --biblatex (although it probably should), only with pandoc-citeproc.

2015-03-29 20:26 GMT+03:00 azrdev notifications@github.com:

@lierdakil https://github.com/lierdakil thanks! -V biblio-files works as expected, i.e. inserts \bibliography{file1.bib,file2.bib}.

The distinction you make w.r.t. metadata blocks is new to me, cannot find it in the readme: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block only gives an example of setting author, so maybe you should make that more clear.

As for the versions: 1.13 is shipped with current Fedora 21 https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/pandoc.

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[mpickering]

Can this be closed? Should the documentation be updated? @lierdakil

[jgm]

Since --bibliography can be used multiple times (producing a list), and since in a recent commit we allowed that --bibliography would populate the biblio-files variable when --natbib or --biblatex is used, we should probably fix things so that it can handle a list.

[lierdakil]

I think at least "citations" section (http://pandoc.org/README.html#citations) should be updated with information on --natbib and --biblatex. At the moment it doesn't mention those. And since using --bibliography with --natbib and --biblatex is somewhat supported, "citation rendering" section (http://pandoc.org/README.html#citation-rendering) should probably be updated to reflect that as well.

[jiucenglou]

Since --bibliography can be used multiple times (producing a list), and since in a recent commit we allowed that --bibliography would populate the biblio-files variable when --natbib or --biblatex is used, we should probably fix things so that it can handle a list.

Could we assign a list of files to --bibliography currently ? :D