From: "Jeff Smith" <ascarel@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Some BibTeX questions
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:06:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e8813a0803200706l68b5356x400dedb15f6d36@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E22C2B.3030406@elvenkind.com>
Thank you very much Taco, for these answers!
Jeff
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>
>
> Jeff Smith wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > A couple of questions regarding BibTeX and ConTeXt. :-)
> >
> > 1) For various reasons I want to make my own .bbl file. Do I
> > understand correctly that I therefore don't need to use \setupbibtex
> > in my document?
>
> Correct. Don't use \setupbibtex in that case, because it will trigger
> bibtex runs and those will likely destroy your handcrafted bbl.
>
>
> >
> > 2) In an automatically generated .bbl file, the \setuppublicationlist
> > command seems to have as a value for the samplesize parameter the very
> > first s-key of the list, .i.e that of the first publication in the
> > database.
>
> In some styles, the "s" (=short) key is used for both referencing
> and labelling in the list of publications. The "samplesize" decides
> how much space on the left should be reserved for the labels in that
> style. It will make the publication list look like this:
>
> [Ach75] Random musings about greenery. Achinaeus Julius, Emperial
> Elite press, Rome, 75 BCE.
> [...] Etc. etc.
>
> And cites will be like
>
> As can be read in [Ach75], ...
>
> > 3) Are the brackets absolutely necessary? With more than one
> > name, perhaps?
>
> Whenever there are embedded commas or square brackets in the keys,
> just like in the rest of context. Bibtex is paranoid and inserts
> many extra braces, just in case.
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>
>
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2008-03-20 0:44 Jeff Smith
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