Re: Bibtex and context?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi Matthew,

> Does Context have a bibliography mechanism?  I don't recall reading
> anything about it in the doco.  More specifically, is there any way of
> getting my bibtex entries in?  I think this is the last requirement for
> my total replacement of latex with context (apart from more mathematics
> macros, which has already been discussed.)
> 
> I've done a bit of bst file editing before.  I guess appropriate bst
> files
> are all that are needed to put bibtex-generated entries into context
> files.
> I could have a crack at this, if it hasn't been done already.  It's
> probably about time I put something back in ;P

Some time ago I defined a general mechanism for collection sof sorted
things, using existing mechanisms. I'll send you the test file (which
defines some macros you need)

It comes down to something:

% definition with two sort keys

\definesortset
  [somepublication]
  [author,title]
  [    type=article,
     author=,title=,
    journal=,volume=,number=,pages=,year=,
    edition=,
       note=,URL=]

% when called by author or title:

\definesortsetitem
  [publication][somepublication][author]
  [(\field{author})]

\definesortsetitem
  [publication][somepublication][title]
  [(\field{title}, by \field{author})]

% or by number as typeset in the list

\definesortsetreference
  [someone][somepublication][{[\fieldnum]}]
  [\FinalPublicationList]

% using a macro:

\def\FinalPublicationList%
  {[\fieldnum]\spatie
   \doif{\field{type}}{article}
     {\doifsomething{\field{author}}{\field{author},\spatie}%
      \doifsomething{\field {title}}{{\sl\field{title}}.\spatie}%
      \doifsomething{\field  {year}}{(\field{year}).\spatie}}
   \par}

% the list itself

\definesortsetlist
  [publicationsbyauthor][somepublication][author][criterium=alles]

% some definitions

\somepublication
  [hagenj-tt,thisthat]
  [author={Hagen, J},
    title={This or That}]

\somepublication
  [ottenaf-ss,suchso]
  [author={Otten, A.F.},
    title={Such and So}]

\somepublication
  [hagenj-ht,herethere]
  [author={Hagen, J},
    title={Here and There}]

\somepublication
  [ottenaf-tt,thickthin]
  [author={Otten, A.F.},
    title={Thick and Thin}]

% a sample

\starttekst

test \publication[author][ottenaf-tt]

test \publication[title][hagenj-tt]

test \someone[ottenaf-ss]

test \someone[hagenj-ht]

\publicationsbyauthor

\stoptekst

So, what we need is a few perl scripts converting existing bib things
into this scheme. 

Hans 

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