How to control language (script) rendering in citations?

[nikola-grubor]

Description

I have set the following language options:

---
title: "Example"
lang: sr-latn
---

However the automatic citation renderer translates linking words like "and" into Cyrillic script, printing "и" instead of the proper "i".
sr-latn should be a valid language code and script, as the official Serbian language supports both scripts (Latin and Cyrillic).

Is there a way to manually control script rendering for dates, citations, etc.?

[mcanouil]

Could you share a small self-contained "working" (reproducible) example to work with, i.e., a complete Quarto document or a Git repository? Thanks.

This being said, CSL files/templates are supposed to take care of the translation as long as they do have the translation (https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/translating-locale-files.html?highlight=language).

You can share a Quarto document using the following syntax, i.e., using more backticks than you have in your document (usually four ````).

````qmd
---
title: "Reproducible Quarto Document"
format: html
---

This is a reproducible Quarto document using `format: html`.
It is written in Markdown and contains embedded R code.
When you run the code, it will produce a plot.

```{r}
plot(cars)
```

The end.
````

[nikola-grubor]

If Quarto's automatic citation engine takes on translations from github.com/citation-style-language/locales then it seems to be a problem of a missing proper translation/locale file. I'll work on one to submit. Thanks!

[mcanouil]

To note, the citation system is actually the one from Pandoc.

[nikola-grubor]

So after trying different things I've decided to add a reproducible example repository.

Looking at the BCP 47 "sr-Latn" should be a way to specify the appropriate script. I've been trying to find from where does Pandoc get its translations so that I can submit an appropriate file if one does not exist, but I'm having a hard time figuring it out. The Babel package (used by Pandoc) seems to have the required translations, but these are used only in case of pdf generation?

[dragonstyle]

Localizations for citation processing (which uses citeproc) is here:

https://github.com/jgm/citeproc/tree/master/locales

It looks like there isn't a sr-Latn specific locale. I'm sure it would be very much appreciated if you could submit one!