Localizing parts of citations

[ghost]

From: citation-style-language/locales#273

Would it be possible somehow to localize ie placenames or thesis genres of citations? One suggestion mentions a pandoc filter, but afaik a pandoc lua filter would only have access to contents of a citation, not knowing necesarily which tokens are up to be localized.

[jgm]

Like the CSL people, I'd say this is out of scope.
Note that if you store your references in the metadata of a pandoc markdown document, you could use a pandoc filter to modify some of the metadata fields (e.g. publisher-place). Or, if you use a separate bibliography, you could use pandoc + a lua filter to create a new bibliography with modified fields.

[ghost]

Thanks for the quick reply. I store my references in a separate YAML file. I see I can access references and their fields with pandoc.utils.references(doc).

Do filters have any access to csl data? That way I could store localization data inside the csl xml ie:

<locale xml:lang="sl">
  <terms>
    <term name="Rome">Rim</term>
  </terms>
</locale>

[jgm]

Do filters have any access to csl data?

No. (Though you can always use a Lua xml library and parse the csl yourself.)

[badumont]

You can also set these variables in a YAML file and pass it along with your input files on the command line:

…

--- localized-terms: - en: Rome la: Roma de: Röm - en: London la: Londinium de: London --- So you will be able to access them directly in the Metadata table.

[ghost]

You can also set these variables in a YAML file and pass it along with your input files on the command line:
…
--- localized-terms: - en: Rome la: Roma de: Röm - en: London la: Londinium de: London --- So you will be able to access them directly in the Metadata table.

Thanks! Maybe I'll do that, I think pandoc-quotes.lua also does something similar for translating typographic quotemarks. (Although it would be nice to have both placenames and quotemarks localization data contained within the csl file.)