How to access the elements of a bibliography?

Questions
1

Is it possible to modify the entries of a bibliography before (or even after) they are shown? I can’t find a way to access them. The best I could do was to increase the vertical space between entries with set block(...).

2

Unfortunately not yet as of v0.11.1, in the future we will hopefully be able to via something akin to #show bibliography.entry like outline.entry today.

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The issue is being tracked at Bibliography customization from within Typst · Issue #942 · typst/typst · GitHub.

A workaround with manual formatting:

#let fakebib(yaml-data) = {
    let format-entry(b) = {
         b.author
         [. ]
         b.title
         // etc.
    }
    locate(loc => {
        // Get all ref'd cite `@doe2024` cf. https://discord.com/channels/1054443721975922748/1179252098362253384/1179258313863606283
        // Limitation: it will not work on #cite(<doe2024>) though
        let citations = query(ref.where(element: none), loc).map((r) => str(r.target)).dedup()

       enum(
          numbering: "[1]",
          ..citations.map((c) => format-entry(yaml-data.at(c))
        )
    )
  })
}

#show bibliography: it => {
    set text(size: 0pt)
    show heading: set text(size: 12pt)
    it
}

@may2000 @doe2024

#bibliography("citations.yml", style: "ieee")
#fakebib(yaml("citations.yml")) // Read yaml file here because if you put fakebib() into a package, it cannot access your hayagriva yaml file

I had to format a bibliography in a way that isn’t currently possible, and I used this workaround. One problem is that I had to recreate CSL style from scratch in Typst (or its rough copy).

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4

That looks very interesting. But I don’t think it is worth the trouble (at least for my usecase). Perhaps it will already be addressed in the next version of Typst.

5

A little bit off-topic, but I know there is a template that changes 等 in entries to et al. Their hack is show grid.cell.where(x: 1): ….

#import "@preview/modern-nju-thesis:0.3.4": bilingual-bibliography

// Replace `#bibliography("refs.bib")` with
#bilingual-bibliography(bibliography: bibliography.with("refs.bib"))
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