Re: Bibliography related questions

[Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>]

On Thu 22 Sep 2011, Alexandre Krispin wrote:

> I am trying to get references working with Context as well as it did
> with Biblatex. Since I didn't find anything helpful in the documentation
> and the mailing-list, I ask here.

It's true that bibliography documentation can be hard to find. The best
source is the manual at http://modules.contextgarden.net/bibman ,
but it is not entirely up to date.

In the following I'm going to assume that you're using MkIV.

> \usemodule[bib]
> \usemodule[bibltx]

These are unnecessary. The bib module has been integrated into the
core. The bibltx module used to define a \newcommand command for
compatibility with some old LaTeX databases, but I don't think it even
exists any more. Unless you use \newcommand in your bib file, this
should not be a problem.

Here's a minimal example which should do what you want:

---8<---

\setupbibtex[database=sample,sort=author]
\setuppublications[alternative=apa-fr,sorttype=bbl,refcommand=authoryear]
\setupinteraction[state=start,color=darkgreen,style=normal]
\setupcite[interaction=start,compress=no]
\def\pagecite[#1][#2]%
{(\cite[alternative=authoryear,left={},inbetween={ },extras={, p. #2}][#1]}

\starttext

\cite[alternative=authoryears,inbetween={ },extras={, p. 3}][Eijkhout1991]

\pagecite[Eijkhout1991][3]

\page[yes]

\placepublications[criterium=text]

\stoptext

---8<---

This uses ConTeXt's included sample bib file. I'm sure this used 
to be found automatically in the ConTeXt tree, but in this case I had
to copy it into the same directory as the TeX file for it to be found.
You can find it in /tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/sample.bib .

You will see that I use two cite commands. The first is probably the
‘more correct’ way to do it, using the authoryears style. However,
this doesn't seem to produce a hyperlink, at least on my version of
ConTeXt (from February 2011). I suspect that this may be a bug. The
second cite (wrapped in a macro for convenience) modifies the
authoryear style instead, which (at least with my setup) does produce
a hyperlink.

Hope this helps!

Pont
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