Tag: Egyptology

March 20, 2021

biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅳ: Pandoc

Pandoc is a command line tool for converting from one markup to another. It uses a largely enhanced markdown syntax as intermediate format. This allows for adding input and output filters for only one format instead of writing them for every possible conversion anew. In case you don’t know what markdown is: It was invented for writing HTML quickly by...

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March 20, 2021

biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅲ: LyΧ

LyΧ is an editor for LaTeΧ that resembles WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. This is achieved by employing HTML for screen output and LaTeΧ for printable formats. Thus the applicable LaTeΧ commands are limited to those for which a HTML complement is available. It is possible to input raw LaTeΧ code...

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December 30, 2020

biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅱ: Zotero and Citavi

I assume that most German archaeologists employ Zotero or Citavi to collect their references. Both are web-based reference managers today, and both are capable to export BibTeΧ files. The main issue is that their database structure is not as in high resolution as BibTeΧ and especially bibLaTeΧ are. Zotero In order to export refrences from Zotero to biblatex-archaeology you should...

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July 18, 2020

biblatex-archaeology [v2.2] selected for long-term archival in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault

My LaTeX package biblatex-archaeology [v2.2] was selected for very-long-term archival in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault on Spitsbergen.

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December 31, 2019

biblatex-archaeology v2.2 released

Good news! Yesterday version 2.2 of my LaTeΧ package biblatex-archaeology was released, with which it comes close to feature completeness. There are no new features on my to-do list, only some minor improvements of existing features and better documentation. Unfortunately there was a huge delay in upgrading, and since the release of biblatex 3.14 biblatex-archaeology stopped working at all. I...

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The biblatex-archaeology styles for German cultural anthropology

biblatex-archaeology is a LaTeΧ package that provides styles according to the referencing rules of the Römisch-Germanische Komission, since these serve in German prehistory & medieval archaeology as a template for verbose, numeric and author date styles.

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