Alexandria -- multiple bibliographies in the same document!

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I have released Alexandria 0.2.1, which updates Hayagriva to 0.8.1 (long overdue – it came out in February…) and thus fixes some bugs. Thanks to @Ujjwal_Jyoti_Goswami for making me aware of this.

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You mentioned that show rules on bibliography do not work on the Alexandria generated ones, is there a way around this for making the font size of the bibliography entries smaller? Another place where I would normally want to use show rules is to interpret markup, like you suggested in this post How to interpret Hayagriva data as content instead of strings? - #3 by SillyFreak

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In theory I could change Alexandria to use elembic for enabling show rules, but that’s not how it works right now.

The best thing for now is to use your own wrapper function:

#let bibliographyx(..args) = {
  set ...
  alexandria.bibliographyx(..args)
}

as long as you don’t have dozens of bibliographies all over the place, making that change is probably not too much work.

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I get what you mean (I think), but If I were to, for example, set the text to 0.8em in the wrapper the heading size would also change, right? Specifically, I am using this Alexandria API to render different bibliographies for Web and Literature sources

heading(level: 1, "Bibliography")

set heading(numbering: none, offset: 1)

context {
  let (references, ..rest) = get-bibliography("x-")
  let is-internet-source(x) = {
    return (
      x.details.type in ("web", "blog")
        or if "parent" in x.details.keys() {
          x.details.parent.type in ("web", "blog")
        } else { false }
    )
  }

  render-bibliography(title: [Scientific Literature], (
    references: references.filter(x => not is-internet-source(x)),
    ..rest,
  ))

  render-bibliography(title: [Internet Sources], (
    references: references.filter(x => is-internet-source(x)),
    ..rest,
  ))
}
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That’s correct, but that’s also how vanilla Typst behaves:

#show bibliography: set text(0.8em)

#bibliography(...)  // title is smaller

for the example you showed, you could add the following rules between your bibliographies:

set text(0.8em)
show heading: set text(1em / 0.8)  // or 1.25em

… but really, I’d pull the title out:

[= Internet Sources]
set text(0.8em)
render-bibliography(title: none, ...)
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That makes sense, thanks!