textsc in BibLaTeX author field ignored about citeproc HOT 3 OPEN

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The type we use in citeproc to represent a name just has plain strings:

data Name =                                 
  Name               
  { nameFamily              :: Maybe Text            
  , nameGiven               :: Maybe Text             
  , nameDroppingParticle    :: Maybe Text        
  , nameNonDroppingParticle :: Maybe Text                
  , nameSuffix              :: Maybe Text                      
  , nameCommaSuffix         :: Bool
  , nameStaticOrdering      :: Bool
  , nameLiteral             :: Maybe Text               
  }                                      
  deriving (Show, Eq, Ord) 

This makes it a lot easier to work with (for all the name manipulations we need to do, like abbreviations).
I can see how this is less than ideal in a few cases, like yours. We can leave this issue open, but it is not a small change that is needed. Perhaps we could set things up so that formatting is allowed in nameLiteral but not the other components...

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@whrose a potential solution is to use luascript to scan and replace name-parts with formatted data using AST elements like Strong. I currently have a transformer working, which I verified in the outputted AST.

Unfortunately the transform seems to run after the bibliography has been rendered(?) so the citation contains original unmodified text element. Will probably turn to the mailing list for help, but thsi is very close to being a solution to your problem (mine is similar -- need to bold face my name in my CV)

edit: Well, bad news. Although I can use a transforming Luascript to modify the citation metadata and manifest this in a bibliography with a two step process (csljson -> md -> pdf), for exactly the reasons that John outlines above, the author formatting , even when present in the intermediate markdown, is lost. Unless there's a way to -- within a single pandoc run -- retrigger document generation after modifying the metadata in AST, out of luck.

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