Re: m-bib, \cite and no year?

[Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de>]

Hello,

Christopher Creutzig wrote:

>  First, I do have entries such as
> @Misc{Wikipedia,
> with no year entry, and this comes out as "Wikipedia ()".  I think the 
> parens should only be used if the year is nonempty.

Side note: The Oxford Guide to Style suggestes for online publication to 
add something like "accessed 23 November 2004".

> Second, I getempty entries in my list of references, which do get a 
> number.  Also, the first 20 numbers are printed in red, while the 
> subsequent entries are in black.  I know this is a vague description, 
> I haven't been able to analyze it in more detail yet.  Just wanted to 
> let you know.

Regarding the colours and maybe completely unrelated: I remember such 
things when interaction is turned on for elements with are on the same 
or on a different page. In that case it helped to set 
\setupinteraction[color=blue].

>  As an aside: Does m-bib provide a way of including page numbers etc. 
> in the citation?  (For authoryear style, this would be overkill, but 
> for other styles, I think "[233, p. 40]" to be pretty readable and 
> helpful.)

Maybe something like (untested):

\setupcite[num][left={},right={}]
\def\pagecite[#1][#2]{[\cite[num][#1], p.~#2]}

Tobias