From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39581 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Some BibTeX questions Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:19:39 +0100 Message-ID: <47E22C2B.3030406@elvenkind.com> References: <2e8813a0803191744u640a7658r708d0d9ab0c26c44@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206004885 14733 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2008 09:21:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:21:25 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 20 10:21:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JcGy6-0006AH-3r for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:21:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1853D1FC36; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:21:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10812-02-8; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127D11FC14; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656CB1FC14 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10022-02-10 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:19:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from tullamore.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247621FBF1 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:19:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by tullamore.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071FC305028C for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:19:40 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070522) In-Reply-To: <2e8813a0803191744u640a7658r708d0d9ab0c26c44@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:39581 Archived-At: Jeff Smith wrote: > Hi! > > A couple of questions regarding BibTeX and ConTeXt. :-) > > 1) For various reasons I want to make my own .bbl file. Do I > understand correctly that I therefore don't need to use \setupbibtex > in my document? Correct. Don't use \setupbibtex in that case, because it will trigger bibtex runs and those will likely destroy your handcrafted bbl. > > 2) In an automatically generated .bbl file, the \setuppublicationlist > command seems to have as a value for the samplesize parameter the very > first s-key of the list, .i.e that of the first publication in the > database. In some styles, the "s" (=short) key is used for both referencing and labelling in the list of publications. The "samplesize" decides how much space on the left should be reserved for the labels in that style. It will make the publication list look like this: [Ach75] Random musings about greenery. Achinaeus Julius, Emperial Elite press, Rome, 75 BCE. [...] Etc. etc. And cites will be like As can be read in [Ach75], ... > 3) Are the brackets absolutely necessary? With more than one > name, perhaps? Whenever there are embedded commas or square brackets in the keys, just like in the rest of context. Bibtex is paranoid and inserts many extra braces, just in case. Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________