Add Support for Hayagriva's YML file standard?

[Tanuj_Global (Tanuj Bagaria)]

Hayagriva is the built-in bibliography engine in Typst. While it does support reading and writing to BibTeX files, it also has its own file standard. This file standard, as far as I can tell, is just asking, “What if BibTeX were YAML?” So it got me thinking since I use JabRef and have fully transitioned over to Typst for my work, it might be nice to have native support for the YAML file format too.

I would love to hear your thoughts: Should we add support for an additional file format?

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[Siedlerchr (Christoph)]

Hi,

this is already possible. JabRef 6.0.beta 1 already provides import and export for that file format

[Tanuj_Global (Tanuj Bagaria)]

That’s amazing, looking forward to the stable release

[Siedlerchr (Christoph)]

I really suggest you try this out and report feedback. There have been a lot of improvements and new features, also improved performance etc

Release v6.0-beta.1 · JabRef/jabref

[Tanuj_Global (Tanuj Bagaria)]

I got the new update. The Hayagriva YML file is only supported as a Import/Export, which means I still have to maintain 2 files inside my project to take advantage of features like ctrl+s and autosave.

[Siedlerchr (Christoph)]

Yes, this is correct. JabRef’s internal library format is BibTeX/biblatex, JabRef only offer this format as import/export