✨ Nice way to handle enclosings for months while writing with the default stack

[nschloe]

Instead of month = {1}, I would like to see month = jan in my bibtex outputs. I see that write_string and write_file both have some middleware argument, but something like

write_string(
    library,
    bibtex_format=bibtex_format,
    prepend_middleware=[MonthAbbreviationMiddleware(True)],
)

only gives

month = {jan}

(with brackets).

Any hints?

[MiWeiss]

Thanks for your comment. I don't think this is supported yet in a non-hacky fashion - although it clearly should be.

Hacky way: It should be possible if you did not prepend_middleware but unparse_stack with a custom AddEnclosingMiddleware instance which implements your desired behavior. That's hardly a nice solution, though.

I'll convert this into a feature request: One possible solution: We could implement a way to specify the desired enclosing on a field value. Said value should be set e.g. by the MonthAbbreviationMiddlewareorMonthAbbreviationMiddleware` and - if set - have precedence over the default enclosings set by the writer.

I'm happy to discuss specifics if anyone wants to take over this issue.