\newbibfield[help!] : Very quick question.

\newbibfield[help!] : Very quick question.

[David Wooten]

Greetings all,

In working with the bib module, I've been trying to understand the 
addition of a field. There is a "\newbibfield" command, but it is not 
entirely clear where to declare it. E.g., I want to have a field called 
"yearnote". If I place this in the list of commands in the t-bib.tex 
file, and call for it with "\insertyearnote" in the 
\setuppublicationlayout, it works perfectly. But declaring 
\newbibfield[yearnote] yields me an "undefined control sequence". Is 
there a special place to declare the latter? — I've tried in my current 
file, before and after \starttext, in the .bbl file, before and after 
\setuppublicationlist… no luck!

Regards,
David

Re: \newbibfield[help!] : Very quick question.

[Taco Hoekwater]

David Wooten wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> In working with the bib module, I've been trying to understand the 
> addition of a field. There is a "\newbibfield" command, but it is not 
> entirely clear where to declare it. 

The normal place would be in the bibl-XXX style, because it depends
on that. But anywhere after \usemodule[bib], but before \starttext
should be fine. It didn't work because there is a huge (!) typo in the
current t-bib.tex. Right after loading the module, please add these
three lines to your source  (or patch the module itself)

   \def\newbibfield[#1]%
     {\simplebibdef{#1}%
      \edef\bibcommandlist{\bibcommandlist,#1}}

Greetings,

Taco