bibdemo.tex example needs a few defs

bibdemo.tex example needs a few defs

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

The bibdemo.tex example on the Wiki
<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography> fails with complaints about
\newcommand being undefined.  The problem is that xampl.bib (which here
is /usr/share/texmf-tetex/bibtex/bib/base/xampl.bib on this teTeX 3.0
distribution) has this:

@preamble{ "\newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{} "
	# "\newcommand{\printfirst}[2]{#1} "
	# "\newcommand{\singleletter}[1]{#1} "
	# "\newcommand{\switchargs}[2]{#2#1} " }

So bibtex puts those LaTeX commands at the top of the .bbl file, and
ConTeXt doesn't know about \newcommand.  A temporary workaround is to
define those commands by hand (see below).  A better workaround is to
define \newcommand.  latex.ltx has a long and involved one, but maybe
there's a nicer ConTeXt way?

Meanwhile, the following example works (context version 2006.04.17 23:14):

\usemodule[bib]
\def\newcommand#1[#2]#3{}
\newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{}
\def\noopsort#1{}
\def\printfirst#1#2{#1}
\def\singleletter#1{#1}
\def\switchargs#1#2{#2#1}
\setupbibtex[database=xampl]
\starttext
As \cite[article-full] already indicated, bibtex is a \LaTeX-centric program.
\completepublications
\stoptext

I'll put this version on the wiki, if there's no clean solution (unless
I've missed an easy fix to the \newcommand problem).

-Sanjoy

Re: bibdemo.tex example needs a few defs

[Taco Hoekwater]

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Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> So bibtex puts those LaTeX commands at the top of the .bbl file, and
> ConTeXt doesn't know about \newcommand.  A temporary workaround is to
> define those commands by hand (see below).  A better workaround is to
> define \newcommand.  latex.ltx has a long and involved one, but maybe
> there's a nicer ConTeXt way?

There used to be a module named bibltx that did precisely that,
but I removed it while waiting for Brook's \usemodule[latex].
I will re-instate the file, but that will take a while, so here
is the previous version ..

Cheers, taco

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Re: bibdemo.tex example needs a few defs

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

From:    Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
> There used to be a module named bibltx that did precisely that,
> but I removed it while waiting for Brook's \usemodule[latex].
> I will re-instate the file, but that will take a while, so here
> is the previous version ..

Thanks, \usemodule[bibltx] works here.  I'll put t-bibltx.tex in any
of my context installs until it comes back to life in the
distributions.  Meanwhile I've wikified it.

Is there a way to tell the wiki software not to enforce uppercase
first letters in filenames?  As of now, people will download it as
T-bibltx.tex, install it, and wonder why Context cannot find it.

-Sanjoy

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         --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.