biblatex types vs overall list of references [pdf output]

[giabaio]

I have a simple pdf document where I want to create a list of references, from a bib file. That's easy enough but I'd like to make full use of biblatex and be able to divide the publications by type.

For example, I can do

---
title: "List of publications"
author: Gianluca Baio
date: today
bibliography: mypubs.bib
csl: harvard.csl
nocite: |
   @*
format: 
   pdf:
     cite-method: biblatex
     biblatexoptions: maxbibnames=99, sorting=ydnt, style=authoryear, dashed=false,
        terseinits=true, date=year
---

\printbibliography[type=book,title={Books}]
\printbibliography[type=article,title={Journal articles}]

This works great (assumes of course that mypubs.bib and harvard.csl are available...). BUT, in addition to printing the two separate lists of books and articles (as required by the two \printbibliography commands), it also automatically generates at the end of the resulting pdf document a full list of references (by effect of the nocite: @* command), which however I don't want --- that's the point of having it divided by types.

I've tried adding a suppress-bibliography: true argument to the yaml, but to no effect.

Am I missing something obvious or is there an extra option hidden somewhere that I should use (say a biblatex-type or something argument to the yaml?)

Thanks
Gianluca

[mcanouil]

If you don't want the default template or part of it, customise it using partials, see https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html#template-partials.

Additionally, take a look at the following Quarto extension: https://github.com/pandoc-ext/section-bibliographies.

[giabaio]

Thanks, that'll probably do! Let me have a look --- if I find something useful, I can follow up on this with a revised template!

[giabaio]

OK. Thanks --- I think it's fairly simple, but I have another question, if that's OK? It may also be trivial, but not sure, again, I'm missing an obvious problem...

Say the qmd file looks like

---
title: "List of publications"
author: Gianluca Baio
date: today
bibliography: mypubs.bib
csl: harvard.csl
nocite: |
   @*
mainfont: "Arial"
include-in-header: 
   text: |
    \newfontfamily\sectionfont[Color=ff7832]{Arial}
    \newfontfamily\subsectionfont[Color=MediumBlue]{Arial}
    \newfontfamily\subsubsectionfont[Color=Green]{Arial}
    \addtokomafont{section}{\sectionfont}
    \addtokomafont{subsection}{\subsectionfont}
    \addtokomafont{subsubsection}{\subsubsectionfont}
format: 
   pdf:
     cite-method: biblatex
     biblatexoptions: maxbibnames=99, sorting=ydnt, style=authoryear, dashed=false,
        terseinits=true, date=year
     show-bib: false
---

\printbibliography[type=book,title={Books}]

(NB: that's pretty much like I showed before, with some extra customisation of the fonts & colours in the sections as per here). All works OK (except the full reference list is also included by the default partials).

Now, I can modify the biblio.tex partial as

$if(biblatex)$
$if(show-biblio)$
$if(beamer)$
\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]{$biblio-title$}
  \bibliographytrue
  \printbibliography[heading=none]
\end{frame}
$else$
\printbibliography$if(biblio-title)$[title=$biblio-title$]$endif$
$endif$
$endif$
$endif$

(basically I now include an extra if depending on the value of show-biblio, which only prints the full reference list if that's set to true --- this is basically enough for what I wanted to do).

However, in this case, the include-in-header commands seem to clash with the rest of the file and the pdf doesn't get compiled with an error

compilation failed- error
Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \addtokomafont 
                               
l.83 \addtokomafont
                   {section}{\sectionfont} 

see publication-list.log for more information.

I don't really understand why --- does this mean I would need to add other partials, even if all I want to modify is a simple bit in the biblio.tex file? (I know there are probably more elegant ways to do this -- I've not worked with partials before, really, so just trying to get a grasp on that...).

Thanks & sorry if I'm being thick!

[mcanouil]

Don't use the include option, set the corresponding partials to avoid the clash.
Look at the whole template and if you add LaTeX code (in include) that conflicts with the template, then you have no other choice than modifying a partial or the whole template.

[giabaio]

OK. Thanks. I think the solution is in this case to add specifically the option

   pdf:
     documentclass: scrartcl

to the yaml, otherwise the resulting tex file thinks that the class is article and things are broken.

Everything else now works in the include-in-header part (which doesn't clash anymore).

Hope this may be helpful for people.

[cderv]

I've tried adding a suppress-bibliography: true argument to the yaml, but to no effect.

This will only works with Pandoc's citation processing, but here you are using biblatex by specifying the cite-method

Just wanted to give a quick explainer around this :)

[giabaio]

Understood! Thanks!