Bruce D'Arcus

Thanks @ocouch . But per my last comment, I don't see this happening anytime soon. Not a single implementer has asked for this, and when in the past it has...

> ... this is about having a way to make minor modifications to styles - for which the differences may be small ... I am aware, but given how many...

> 1. It is difficult for "maintaining a fork" that all the styles live in the same repo. You miss out on all the features of git (mostly automatic merging...

For example, Emacs MELPA has a single, typically one-line, "recipe" file for each package, which is simply a redirect to some repo, with optional files specified. Here's a package I...

> Is pandocs CSL YAML actually identical to CSL JSON? I hadn't checked, but wondering if devs like @jgm would find value in this. Advantage is we have one schema,...

> People definitely seem to like YAML in my research community. Easier to manually edit if needed, like BibTeX or RIS. Exactly. YAML is easily hand-editable. JSON isn't.

> > YAML is easily hand-editable. JSON isn't. > > And with auto-completion it would be even better! https://github.com/liuderchi/ide-yaml/issues/56

When we originally designed the json, focus was on machines. But given evolution since, now might be a time to rethink some of the decisions, so we end with a...

> @retorquere I think he is saying that pandoc CSL YAML supports markdown syntax in addition to HTML syntax. I read John to say above that he doesn't support the...

> And with auto-completion it would be even better! Did you get YAML auto-completion working with vscode? Might be cool if we could have CSL extensions for both vscode and,...