⚠️ Until further notice fahrenheit remains an experiment in language design and is under active development. I would be extremely thankful for any feedback!

fahrenheit-lang

fahrenheit is a domain-specific language for authoring citations and bibliographies styles. It compiles to CSL.

Why?

CSL has become the de facto standard for codifying citations and bibliographies styles. It is widely adopted and has excellent documentation. I have no intention to change that.

However authoring citations and bibliographies styles in XML can be tedious and/or verbose. The fahrenheit language aims to offer an improved styles authoring experience whilst complying to the CSL specification.

Here's a contrived example:

{:about
  {:id "http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa"
   :title [:en "American Psychological Association 7th edition"]
   :title-short "APA"}}

The above code compiles to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<style version="1.0">
  <info>
    <id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa</id>
    <title xml:lang="en">American Psychological Association 7th edition</title>
    <title-short>APA</title-short>
  </info>
</style>