Under preference there is a line for citation formatter, has this been added or still in development. Forums and newsgroup only talk about the different citation formats but not the actual addon.

[image] Nick-Hall: You may also want to change the description to match the name. Done and pushed to the PR

[image] Nick-Hall: I think that I prefer “Legacy”. ‘legacy’ is good. Sets expectations to a closer neighborhood than ‘default’

[image] Nick-Hall: I think that I prefer “Legacy” Pushed the change to “Legacy”

[image] DaveSch: Pushed the change to “Legacy” That pushed the part visible to end-users. But how about the module name? gramps/plugins/cite/default.py and the related line 40 in the cite.gpr.py fname="default.py",

[image] emyoulation: But how about the module name? Check again. Just did it!

[image] DaveSch: Check again. Just did it! Thanks! It persists in showing default.py when looking at the master branch. But now shows the commit with the fname changes.

The unit test is failing. There are two files that still need updating. You may also want to change the description to match the name.

[image] DaveSch: Even within the Chicago style, the format changes depending on the type of source. For a book, the title should be in italics. Gramps cannot do this (or can it?). While articles or parts of a larger source has the title in quotations. Currently we can only have one format for ev…

In 5.2, the Citation plugin is a Global preference selection. Is there a way to make a CITE plugin override (similar to the Name format and grouping can be overridden for an individual or a surname)? Does the Citation plugin specification allow a FALLBACK to the Preference CITE plugin if criteria …

[image] emyoulation: Is there a way to make a CITE plugin override I envisioned having the Style selected in Preferences, i.e. Chicago . Then for each Source, it would self-select its formatting from within the master Style based upon the Media Type from its Repository or manually set by the u…

Reports generate a bibliography object and pass it to a CITE plugin. The bibliography object contains lists of source and citation handles for which a text representation is required. A CITE plugin can generate the formatted citations in various ways. The legacy plugin just combines a few fields …

Citation Formatter

Development Beta Testing

Nick-Hall April 12, 2024, 9:31pm 33

Any code can use a citation formatter. Just pass it a Bibliography object and it will return formatted results.

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