New style alternative for \cite?

New style alternative for \cite?

[Oliver Buerschaper]

Hi Taco,

I'd like to typeset my references in a sort of "authortitle" citation  
style in the main text (actually hidden away in footnotes, so the  
final length of the phrase is not an issue):

T. Hoekwater, ConTeXt Publication Module

How could this be done? After a quick glance at the module's source I  
figured this might take me weeks if not months to work it out myself :-(

Thanks for your help and best wishes,
Oliver

Re: New style alternative for \cite?

[Taco Hoekwater]

Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
> Hi Taco,
> 
> I'd like to typeset my references in a sort of "authortitle" citation  
> style in the main text (actually hidden away in footnotes, so the  
> final length of the phrase is not an issue):
> 
> T. Hoekwater, ConTeXt Publication Module
> 
> How could this be done? After a quick glance at the module's source I  
> figured this might take me weeks if not months to work it out myself :-(

That took a bit of doing because the macro that is supposed to help
setting this stuff up is broken :-(

Here is a macro that comes close to what you had in mind, I hope.
The main weakness is that it only supports one main author, as it
is now (that is because of "\getcitedata[author1]")

   \def\MYauthor#1#2#3#4#5{#4 #3}
   \def\specialcite#1[#2]%
      {\bgroup
       \getcitedata[author1][#2] to \mauthors
       \getcitedata[title][#2] to \mtitle
       \expandafter\MYauthor\mauthors, \mtitle
       \egroup}

Best wishes, Taco