Suppress newline between bibliography entries?

[davidorme]

Hi,

More of a request for help than an issue, really, but I can't find anything in the CSL spec that allows you to remove the linebreak between bibliography entries. In many ways it is a terrible and stupid thing to do, but there are circumstances (e.g. grants) where providing an ultra compact bibliography without line breaks is useful (although not really for the reader). I can't see how to specify this in the XML.

Thanks, David

[bdarcus]

I never considered this option, but you could see what the entry-spacing option does if set to 0?

http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#bibliography-specific-options

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 8:27 AM David Orme [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

More of a request for help than an issue, really, but I can't find anything in the CSL spec that allows you to remove the linebreak between bibliography entries. In many ways it is a terrible and stupid thing to do, but there are circumstances (e.g. grants) where providing an ultra compact bibliography without line breaks is useful (although not really for the reader). I can't see how to specify this in the XML.

Thanks, David

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[davidorme]

I'd wondered the same and tried out a style that sets it: http://www.zotero.org/styles/international-pig-veterinary-society-congress-proceedings

Sadly, nope - still gives line breaks. My reading of that bit of the docs was that it is the spacing between entries: "are separated by a single additional line-height" and that's what happens (at least using Papers 3.4.16 on Mac, so it could be an implementation detail).

[bwiernik]

I've seen this request often enough in the context of grant applications that we might want to consider line-spacing="0", meaning suppress bibliography line breaks, as an option.

[cormacrelf]

Probably want to make that self-documenting, ie line-spacing="no-linebreak", because my first guess would be that the zero is meaningful as some kind of "no extra spacing" value.

[denismaier]

Shouldn't line spacing and line breaking be different options. I can imagine cases where you want no linebreaks but a line spacing of a certain amount.

[bwiernik]

Oh, you're right, this be the entry-spacing attribute, not line-spacing.

[denismaier]

entry-spacing="0" looks good to me.

[davidorme]

Thanks for re-visiting this. I think entry-spacing=0 is what I originally tried and it removed the additional vertical spacing between entries. That's what I thought it would do from the docs, to be honest. I think the self-documenting "no-linebreak" would make it clearer to me.

[denismaier]

This came up again on the citeproc-el issue tracker. Should we consider this for 1.1? @bwiernik @bdarcus ?

[sbaross]

Has there been any update on this? I'm preparing a grant right now and it would be very useful to be able to condense the references without doing it manually!

[jiversen]

I'm in the same boat and would like this option.

Sorry to hijack, but it is related to the same use case: is it possible for citation number to not be followed by a tab? There is no tab in the suffix, but it is always inserted between the citation number and the name.