active urls in bibliographies

active urls in bibliographies

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

[This must be a FAQ, and if so I'll put it on the wiki]  

I tried to force an active hyperlink to be part of a bibliography entry.
If the bibliography style file for that entry type uses it, maybe it
will work.  But I wanted to put it in the 'note' field so that I could
add it to most entries.  e.g.

@Book{HPL:2000,
  editor =	 {John D. Barnsford and Ann L. Brown and Rodney R. Cocking},
  title = 	 {How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school.},
  publisher = 	 {National Academy Press},
  year = 	 2000,
  address =	 {Washington, DC},
  edition =	 {expanded},
  note =	 {http://www.nap.edu}
}

As above, the URL comes out normal (i.e. not hyperlinked).  I couldn't
get the 'biburl' field to do the magic (even with \setupinteraction
started), maybe because I'd need to reprogram the .bst to use it.  Also
various combinations of \useURL and \goto did not work.  e.g. This
failed:

\useURL[someurl][http://www.someurl.org][][http://www.someurl.org]

@Book{HPL:2000,
{...
  note =	 {\goto[someurl]}
...
}

That fails with

! Argument of \dogoto has an extra }.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
<to be read again> 
                   }
\doattributes ...name #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4}
                                                  \dostopattributes 
<argument> ...esetapublication {HPL:2000}\strut }}
                                                  \egroup \ifdim \wd 4=\zero...

\secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2
                              
\dosomelistelement ...hss \dostoplistattributes }}
                                                  \endgraf \nointerlineskip ...
...
l.208 \placepublications[criterium=all]


Any thoughts appreciated!

-Sanjoy

`Intellectual property is intellectual theft.'
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Re: active urls in bibliographies

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi Sanjoy,

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> I tried to force an active hyperlink to be part of a bibliography entry.
> If the bibliography style file for that entry type uses it, maybe it
> will work.  But I wanted to put it in the 'note' field so that I could
> add it to most entries.  e.g.
>
> @Book{HPL:2000,
>   editor =	 {John D. Barnsford and Ann L. Brown and Rodney R. Cocking},
>   title = 	 {How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school.},
>   publisher = 	 {National Academy Press},
>   year = 	 2000,
>   address =	 {Washington, DC},
>   edition =	 {expanded},
>   note =	 {http://www.nap.edu}
> }
>   
Well, I use
   url = {http://www.nap.edu}
and have in my local environment something like:

%copied from bibl-a*.tex
\setuppublicationlayout[article]{% in your case book
[...]
   \insertdoi{ doi:}{.}{}%
   \insertbiburl{ }{.}{}% <--- added
[...]
}

In addition, you need to patch t-bib.tex. I have the following changes
in mine which should be also (in some form) in the next release of
Taco's module:

--- /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/bib/t-bib.tex  2006-12-08 12:46:44.000000000 +0100
+++ /system/home/tob/texmf/tex/context/bib/t-bib.tex    2007-04-19 13:42:17.000000000 +0200
@@ -497,10 +497,15 @@

 \processcommacommand[\bibcommandlist]\simplebibdef

+\def\insertdoi#1#2#3%
+     {{\bibdoifelse{\@@pb@doi}%
+        {\edef\ascii{\@EA\detokenize\@EA{\@@pb@doi}}%
+         #1\expanded{\gotoDOI{\@@pb@thekey}{\ascii}}#2}{#3}}}
+
 \def\insertbiburl#1#2#3%
-    {{\bibdoifelse{\@@pb@biburl}%
-       {\edef\ascii{\@EA\detokenize\@EA{\@@pb@biburl}}%
-        #1\@EA\hyphenatedurl\@EA{\ascii}#2}{#3}}}
+     {{\bibdoifelse{\@@pb@biburl}%
+        {\edef\ascii{\@EA\detokenize\@EA{\@@pb@biburl}}%
+         #1\expanded{\gotoURL{\@@pb@thekey}{\ascii}}#2}{#3}}}

 \def\insertmonth#1#2#3%
   {\bibdoifelse{\@@pb@month}%
@@ -641,7 +646,7 @@
        \ifnum \numexpr\scratchcounter-1\relax<#2\relax
           \getvalue{\??pv data#1}##1%
           \ifnum \scratchcounter=#2\relax
-             \ifnum\etallimitcounter<\commalistsize \bibalternative{#1etaltext}\fi
+             \ifnum\etallimitcounter<\commalistsize\relax \bibalternative{#1etaltext}\fi
           \else \ifnum\numexpr\scratchcounter+1 = #2\relax
              \ifnum \commalistsize > \plustwo  \bibalternative\c!finalnamesep
              \else                            \bibalternative\c!lastnamesep \fi
@@ -1636,7 +1641,9 @@

 \def\gotoDOI#1#2%
   {\ifbibinteractionelse
-     {\useURL[bibfoo#1][http://dx.doi.org/#2]\goto{\url[bibfoo#1]}[url(bibfoo#1)]}
+     {\useURL[bibfooDoi#1][#2]%
+      \useURL[bibfoo#1][http://dx.doi.org/#2]%
+      \goto{\url[bibfooDoi#1]}[url(bibfoo#1)]}
      {\hyphenatedurl{#2}}}

 \def\bibdoiref[#1]%

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Re: active urls in bibliographies

[Taco Hoekwater]

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> 
> In addition, you need to patch t-bib.tex. I have the following changes
> in mine which should be also (in some form) in the next release of
> Taco's module:

There will be a bugfix release a week or two after this year's
eurobachotex, with this patch included as well as a number of
other items in my backlog.

Best wishes,

Taco
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Re: active urls in bibliographies

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

Tobias,

Thanks for the patches.  I put them together but didn't get a url at
all in the reference.  But, the patch to t-bib.tex caused 'patch' to
complain:

  patching file t-bib.tex
  patch: **** malformed patch at line 3: --- 498,497 ----

So I patched it by hand, and maybe the problem lies in that I messed
up the hand patching of t-bib.tex.  Could you send me the patch
(either on- or off-list) as an attachment?  Then I'll try again, and
if that fails I'll post a minimal example and only wikify once it's
working.

-Sanjoy

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Re: active urls in bibliographies

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

Thanks for the minimal example you sent me (offlist), which worked
great.

> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an
> entry to the Wiki!

I modified it only slightly and have wikified it at
<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography#Active_URLs>.  When the
patched t-bib.tex is part of the ConTeXt release, I'll modify the wiki
directions accordingly.

-Sanjoy

`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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