Show HN: celine/bibhtml: a Web Components referencing system for HTML documents

https://maxbo.me/celine/bibhtml/

by mbo • 2 years ago

106 9 2 years ago

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eterps• 2 years ago

Impressive, this actually 'feels' like an extension for HTML (rather than some custom styles).

zczc• 2 years ago

Interesting, but the simpler way is to use plain html with microformats [1], so this:

  @book{kn:gnus,
  AUTHOR = "Donald E. Knudson",
  TITLE = "1966 World Gnus Almanac",
  PUBLISHER = {Permafrost Press},
  ADDRESS = {Novosibirsk} }

becomes this:

  <div class="book" id="kn:gnus">
   <div class="author">Donald E. Knudson</div>
   <div class="title">1966 World Gnus Almanac</div>
   <div class="publisher">Permafrost Press</div>
   <div class="address">Novosibirsk</div>
  </div>

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-formats#BibTeX

spankalee• 2 years ago

That doesn't do the same thing at all. It doesn't create numbered citations, backlinks, or a bibliography.

arcbyte• 2 years ago

OP is pointing out the stupidity of the custom citation syntax that the javascript library uses to create all those features, and highlighting how idiomatic HTML supports the same data markup requirements of the citation with far superior standards and styling support.

Show HN: celine/bibhtml: a Web Components referencing system for HTML documents

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