Re: m-bib questions/remarks

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just started to use the bib module for accessing my existing bibtex
> databases. I have some remarks/questions. First, my minimal input file:
> 
> \usemodule[bib]
> \setupbibtex[database=test,sort=no]
> \starttext
>         \cite[a], \cite[b], \cite[c]
>         \completelistofpublications
> \stoptext
> 
> 1. The first TeX run works fine, and so does running BibTeX. But in the
> subsequent TeX run, I get an error message because of an undefined control
> sequence \etalchar. This seems to be used for the short labels. I do not
> need them, so I said \def\etalchar#1{#1} as workaround, but I do not think
> that everything is as it should be now.
> 
> 2. If I omit "sort=no" from the setup (since it is the default), TeX
> complains about \@@pbsort being undefined during the first run, probably an
> internal problem of the module.
> 
> 3. I am unable to change the citation format.
> \setuppublications[refcommand=authoryears] has no effect, nor has
> \setupcite[author][]. However, \cite[authoryears][a] works fine, so a
> workaround is not difficult to do.
> 
> 4. If there are abbreviations used only in titles in the list of
> publications, they won't make their way into the list of abbreviations. I
> guess I have to take care of them myself? I have noticed the same if you
> use another abbreviations in the full text for an abbreviation, and if this
> the only occurence of the second abbreviation, so that it is called only in
> the list of abbreviations. My workaround is "{\setbox0{\hbox{\EXMPL}}}" in
> the text, any better suggestions?
> 
> If these problems are my fault, please tell me, if they are due to the beta
> stage of the module, please consider this a bug-report (1-3) or feature
> suggestion (4).

1. is definately a bug.
2. is probably an incompatibility with your context, it does not appear
   in mine.
3. is also a bug.

4. I don't understand why it doesn't work. (It should, I think).

Thanks for the report, I'll look into them soon.
-- 
groeten,

Taco