Add support for citations

[mpastell]

I'm looking into adding support for citations in m2html and md2pdf formats (#144). Current state and plans:

• Parse citations from Markdown
• Format citations for output as numbers (html)
• Add list of references (html)
• Convert citations to latex
• Run bibtex when converting to pdf if needed

[ChrisRackauckas]

@pfitzseb this seems like it's pretty far along, and mostly stalled because the HTML doesn't add the list of references? It would be nice if this got rebased and merged even if that HTML part isn't fully complete yet, since this would likely be mostly used with PDFs.

@jlperla how did you it with https://julia.quantecon.org/ ?

Xref @strangeli

[jlperla]

@ChrisRackauckas The QE is built around a very flexible but complicated RST/sphinx based tool: https://github.com/QuantEcon/jupinx and I think (but am not entirely sure) that the latex stuff comes out of sphinx. Not many lessons that can be learned from it for Weave, I fear.

[Tokazama]

Is anyone still working one this?

[charleskawczynski]

Suggested change

	cites = []
	for c in citations.content
	push!(cites, c.key)
	end
	cites = map(c -> c.key, citations.content)

Can avoid potential dynamic resizing by not using push! here

[drbenvincent]

Just dropping by to say this feature would be very cool. Being able to drop in bibtex citations in .jmd files then weave that into pdf's would unlock the door to writing journal papers in .jmd. In my humble opinion, this would be a really really cool addition to the Julia ecosystem.

[storopoli]

Just dropping by to say this feature would be very cool. Being able to drop in bibtex citations in .rmd files then weave that into pdf's would unlock the door to writing journal papers in .rmd. In my humble opinion, this would be a really really cool addition to the Julia ecosystem.

I agree, looking forward to it. Did you mean .jmd?

[drbenvincent]

I agree, looking forward to it. Did you mean .jmd?

Yes! Thanks for spotting that. I've corrected the mistake.

[EvoArt]

Just dropping by to say this feature would be very cool. Being able to drop in bibtex citations in .jmd files then weave that into pdf's would unlock the door to writing journal papers in .rmd. In my humble opinion, this would be a really really cool addition to the Julia ecosystem.

Agreed! This would be a brilliant addition.

[AhmedSalih3d]

Has this been deserted? 😊

Just so I don't try too deep into using it

[newptcai]

Has this been deserted? 😊

Just so I don't try too deep into using it

It more or less works and you can always fork it by yourself. But I agree it is a bit disheartening to see so many pull requests remain unmerged as a Weave user.