Re: Need help with bibliography

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Mika Ritola wrote:

> I'll try to give a clearer explanation. First of all, when I cite a  
> source using e.g. \cite[Smith2000], this should appear in the text  
> as "Smith 2000". I've already managed to do this. Now, each entry in  
> the bibliography should begin with the same string that was used to  
> identify it within the text. So, the above example should look  
> something like this:
>
> Smith 2000<tab>John Smith. Generic Book Title. Whatever Publishing  
> Company, New York 2000.
>
> I know I can get the "John Smith" by using \insertauthors in  
> \setuppublicationlayout. But how do I get just the last name? The  
> answer is probably so simple that I should be ashamed that I can't  
> figure it out by myself but I haven't quite gotten the hang of  
> ConTeXt and TeX yet...

Ah, so it turns out you're looking for something else altogether. In  
your case, you want a special kind of label for your bibliographic  
list. See if Aditya's hack gives the result you want. But generally  
speaking, I think your setup is pretty common in the humanities, so it  
should be added as a key to the processactionlist in l. 308-316 of  
bibl-tra.mkiv. Hans, Taco, is there a proper syntax for getting the  
lastname and year of the current bib item?

>
> 2. This one, on the other hand, is likely to be rather non-trivial:  
> the bibliography needs to be broken up into several categories of  
> sources. For example, audiovisual sources, newspaper sources and  
> books should be listed under separate headings, somewhat like this:
>
> BIBLIOGRAPHY
>
> I. AUDIOVISUAL SOURCES
>
> [some sources]
>
> II. NEWSPAPER SOURCES
>
> [...]
>
> III. BOOKS
>
> [...]
>
> I've tried to decipher the source code of the Bib module but as I'm  
> not particularly fluent in TeX, I haven't been able to make much  
> headway so far. I'd appreciate some hints on where to start with  
> this. I don't suppose there's any existing code for something like  
> this? Maybe I'd be better off writing the bibliography by hand?
>
> That sounds harder. You basically need three separate  
> bibliographies, each of them sorted in some way. I'm not certain the  
> current implementation of the bib module can do that (i.e. I'm  
> almost certain it can't). How do you want to refer to these items in  
> your text? Again, we'll probably need some more information about  
> what you want to achieve.
>
> I think it would be easiest if I could refer to them in the usual  
> way, using \cite[Smith2000]. Of course, each item in the .bib file  
> should have some kind of a tag, so that ConTeXt could automagically  
> insert it under the correct heading.

Well, Hans said it was possible. You'll need to define an additional  
field to filter your items and then have three lists typeset.

Thomas

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