{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc-citeproc/issues/190","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc-citeproc/issues/190/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc-citeproc/issues/190/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc-citeproc/issues/190/events","html_url":"https://github.com/jgm/pandoc-citeproc/issues/190","id":115839421,"number":190,"title":"performance of citation processing","user":{"login":"aw-bib","id":7702850,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7702850?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib","html_url":"https://github.com/aw-bib","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aw-bib/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-11-09T09:36:52Z","updated_at":"2015-11-09T09:36:52Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I tried recently to convert a book typeset in LaTeX to docx using pandoc. Everything worked out nicely except the references from BibTeX. I was able to strip the original bibtex input from some 1500 references to the used ones, but still with ~400 references pandoc-citeproc seems not to come to an end in processing. Given the fact that it is not possible to further strip down the number of bibtex-entries it would be nice if there could be some other way to handle such bibliographies.\r\n\r\nI could have went by with conversion on a chapter basis, but with an input of ~400 entries it even didn't come to an end for a chapter with only 25 references. (I stopped it after some 15min at 100% cpu.)\r\n\r\nBesides theses and other scientific books, `pandoc` would also come in handy for the production of bibliographies in a number of formats. E.g. something along the line of `\\nocite{*} with a given `bibtex`-input. However, for annual reporting schemes one easily hits several hundreds of publications. #71 does not seem to gain enough here.\r\n\r\nI tried pandoc 1.15.1 on linux."}}