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From: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: bibliography - maybeyear
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:20:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131129222053.55670b7a@iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5298790E.1060408@uni-bonn.de>

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:22:54 +0100
"Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> maybeyear is one of the areas that need fixing. The simple on/off 
> mechanism is not sufficient, because the behavior needs to be more
> complex:
> 
> 1. If the citation style does not use the year as a key, do not
> append letters.
> 
> 2. If the citation style uses year as key and only one
> publication/year of an author is quoted and listed (even if there are
> several in the bib file) do not append letter.
> 
> 3. Append letter if citation style uses year AND more than one 
> publication/year for given author is quoted and listed.
> 
> I assume that in order for this to work, Hans will have to rewrite
> the code which produces the .bbl file from the bib. Right now,
> AFAICS, the .bbl contains the entire .bib database. It should only
> contain the entries which are cited.
> 
> Alan, does that make sense to you?

Yes

Perhaps the .bbl could contain the entire .bib database with the
filtering taking place then in lua/ConTeXt. How this is handled
internally is a programming, not a user issue.

I do agree with your assessment of when to and when not to append a
letter to the year as listed.

Alan
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      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-29 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-20  8:12 Alan Braslau
2013-11-20 12:38 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-20 12:53   ` Alan Braslau
2013-11-28 17:37 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-29 11:22   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2013-11-29 21:20     ` Alan Braslau [this message]

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