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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