Re: 2 m-bib questions

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:25:27 +0200 (CEST), Peter wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> here my m-bib questions:
> 
> * The lost space after \cite[...], is it a bug or a feature?

It is unintentional, and I will try to fix that behaviour in the future.
 
> * I'm going to add some multi-lingual support to m-bib. My idea is, to
>   replace in cont-XX.bst and bibl-XXX.tex "page" by "\pagename", "and" by
>   "\andname" and so on. Is this method ok? If not, how should I do it (not
>   too complicated please ;) ?

Brooks and Hans both gave solutions that do not work all too well
(because of combinatory explosion: conseptually there is a distinct 
'before-before', 'after-before', 'before-after', 'after-after', and 'not-found' 
text -- that depends on the current language -- for each and every one 
of the nodes in the nested  tree that represents a bibliographic item).

The best 'easy' solution I can think of is: copy the bibl-xxx.tex file
you want to a different name (like bibl-apa-de.tex), then change the
text within it on the spot, without any macro replacements whatsoever.

My next release will support something like 

	\setuppublications[style=apa,
                                  language=de]

so from then on, the problem will be hidden from the casual user.

BTW: If in your version the BST files still contain actual text, you should
download a newer version from http://tex.aanhet.net/bib .

-- 
groeten,

Taco