Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Michael Green wrote:
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(1) I get two periods after a book title when using 
\setuppublications[alternative=apa]. 

[snip]

This happens with all books. On looking at the source, I'm afraid I 
can't track down where it's coming from or how to fix it.

(2) Is it possible to use smart quotes in citations? For instance, for 
this book, authored by O'Donovan, I can enter the appropriately curly 
character between O and D in my bibtex file. But it comes out straight 
in the final document.

Can you tell what version of context you are using and post a short
but complete example of your input? Neither problem sounds familiar,
so I have to look at your actual code to see that is going on.

Best wishes,
Taco


I can't reproduce the second problem, with the straight/smart quotes. Let's ignore it.

The first problem, with the two periods after a book title, has been with me since at least last year. I can reproduce it with the following:

[A] ConTeXt version.

ConTeXt  ver: 2008.08.05 18:47 MKIV  fmt: 2008.8.6  int: english/english

This is based TeXLive 2007, originally installed with the MacTeX installer and updated with cont-tmf,zip from pragma and the ppc-darwin binaries from http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/osx-ppc/texmf-osx-ppc/bin/.

My understanding of TeX installations is not sophisticated. Perhaps I goofed. But everything seems to work.

[B] File

\usemodule[bib]
\setuppublications[alternative=apa,refcommand=authoryear]

\setuppublicationlist[samplesize={Kav86},totalnumber=1]

\startpublication[k=Kavka:1986qe,t=book,
a={{Kavka}},y=1986,
n=2,s=Kav86]
\author[]{Gregory}[G.]{}{Kavka}
\pubyear{1986}
\title{Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory}
\city{Princeton}
\pubname{Princeton University Press}
\stoppublication

\starttext

Here is a reference to the Kavka book: \cite[Kavka:1986qe]

\placepublications

\stoptext

The output I get is:

Here is a reference to the Kavka book: Kavka (1986) 
Kavka, G. (1986). Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory.. Princeton: Princeton 
University Press.

Thanks for your help.

Michael