This is a work in progress. I'm trying to improve upon my first attempt at an automatic legal citation and layout system. It was too complicated.
The goal is to let you provide some metadata about your citations, write using plain text, and then turn that into a nicely formatted PDF or Word document with proper McGill-style citations, footnotes, and (optional) bibliography, for both articles and factums.
- Racket
- pollen, pollen-citations-mcgill, and dependencies
- a LaTeX installation (on Windows, I recommend MiKTeX)
- pandoc
- Install all the above dependencies.
- Clone this git repository.
- From the root directory of the cloned repository, run
raco pollen render examples/down-the-foxhole.pdf. This will re-create the example pdf.
There's an online demo here: https://citations-demo.herokuapp.com/
| Document type | Source text | Output PDF |
|---|---|---|
| Article | examples/down-the-foxhole.poly.pm | examples/down-the-foxhole.pdf |
| Factum | work in progress | work in progress |