From: Taco Hoekwater <bittext@quicknet.nl>
Subject: Bibliography module (new version)
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:06:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A9973DC.960E0BE2@quicknet.nl> (raw)
Hi all,
I just uploaded a new beta of the bibliorgaphy module to the following
web address:
http://www.elvenkind.com/~taco/bibmod/
m-bib.zip is the actual distribution
bibmod.tex documentation (a bit rough)
bibmod.pdf a pdf version of the documentation
This is a nearly complete rewrite, and some of the commands have
changed!
Be careful if you still have documents around that use the previous
beta!
What's new:
- \setuppublications now only takes care of global options
- `alternative=' and the other options to \setuppublications are
mutually
exclusive.
- more control over the formatting of the label in the publication list.
- new command : \setupcite
- new command : \setupbibtex
- new command : \newbibfield
- The publication list is now a standard context list,
\setuppublicationlist now passes its argumentlist to
\setuplist.
- \setuppublicationparameters is removed (no longer needed)
- The existance of a bbl file is no longer required
- (hopefully) proper nesting of the macros (the \month bug)
- citations now have per-type values for left,right,compress etc.
- new \cite style: data (the actual entry itself)
- some commalist macros are split off to a separate file:
m-list.tex. m-list.tex defines the following two commands:
\compresscommalist/\compresscommacommand[...]
(a macro that compresses sorted numeric lists)
\reversecommalist/\reversecommacommand[..]
(reverses the ordering, result is in \reverselist)
don't forget to update the filename database!
- it is now possible to refer to non-existing labels
(not that you want to, of course, but you won't get a TeX error
anymore)
- many, many improvements to the documentation (still not ok,
:-(, but better)
- fewer nameclashes (I think)
- the bibtex styles now output 'samplesize' instead of 'sample'.
'sample' didn't work since it was converted to the internal
dutch command.
Known problems:
- some weird stuff with the multi-lingual interface. I can only say
that it appears to work ok in both english and dutch context.
most obvious weirdness: `author' remains an english word in all
interfaces.
best-bet approach: if it is not a 'normal' context keyword
(like numbering/nummeren), it should be specified in english.
At the moment (half of the internals still dutch, the other half
already english), the multilingual interface is a major headache.
- words like ` and ' are still hardcoded in bibl-apa.tex
- \setuppublicationlist isnt particularly flexible (well, about as
flexible as \setuplist)
- no interaction. The idea is: we find the paper bugs first, then ask
Hans to
add interaction. :-)
Have fun, Taco
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