Re: bib module: multiple bibs and alphabetical order

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hi Idris,

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> 1. Does t-bib now support multiple bibliographies? For past issues of the 
> journal, I had to define a new bib-env file for each article that required a 
> bibliography, otherwise the bibliography of, say, article two would include 
> the bibliography for article one. Is there a general solution for this?

I have uploaded a new beta for you.

   http://tex.aanhet.net/bib/m-bib-beta/20051007.zip

This beta should work with the example files you sent me, except
that you have to delete the

   \input articleX.bbl

lines. I'm not sure that your use of the project structure is
correct, so I'm equally unsure that a definitive version should
use the same solution as this beta, but for now it should be
more or less ok.

There is one bbl per article, but only one (global) list
of references & publications, so, for now, your bbl files
need to define bib items with unique keys. I hope this is
workable for now?

On the project structure: I believe a project file should be
pure virtual, so that: the components are the articles, the
product is the journal issue, and the project is the journals
entire lifespan.

Such a structure would need a different solution from the one
I have implemented now, so we may have to revisit this part
of the module in a few weeks. Is that ok?

> 2. Can t-bib extract the references and place them in alphabetical order, or 
> do I have to still organize my bbl files alphabetically by hand (I really hope 
> not->)? Automatic alphabetizing bbl file data in the output has been one of my 
> major wishes for t-bib.

The current module cannot do this, because it is unfeasible to do
sorting in TeX macros. I will investigate sorting through texutil
or something similiar, but that will need more than a few days/weeks
to implement, so definately will not be ready before tuesday.

Btw, if you use bibtex, then you can do

   \setupbibtex[sort=title]

because then bibtex does the sorting for me. :-)

> If the above two are solved I can use a single master bbl file for the entire 
> journal instead of multiple files, thus streamlinig much of my workflow.

In the new beta, also removed some spurious spaces in bibl-apa.tex
that sometimes created blank lines, and I've added that definition
of \noopsort for Giuseppe.

Cheers, Taco