Re: Need help with bibliography

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mika Ritola wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm planning to write my Master's thesis in history using ConTeXt, and I've
> done some experimenting on it to see if it's actually suitable for my
> purposes. Everything seems to be quite simple except for one thing: the
> bibliography. The bibliography guidelines for our history department are
> rather complex in comparison to the formats that come packaged with ConTeXt,
> and I have no idea how to implement them. So far, I've run into two
> problems:
> 
> 1. This one's probably very simple: there's the /insertauthors macro for
> inserting the whole name of the author. But how do you insert just the last
> name of the author?
> 
> 2. This one, on the other hand, is likely to be rather non-trivial: the
> bibliography needs to be broken up into several categories of sources. For
> example, audiovisual sources, newspaper sources and books should be listed
> under separate headings, somewhat like this:
> 
> BIBLIOGRAPHY
> 
> I. AUDIOVISUAL SOURCES
> 
> [some sources]
> 
> II. NEWSPAPER SOURCES
> 
> [...]
> 
> III. BOOKS
> 
> [...]
> 
> I've tried to decipher the source code of the Bib module but as I'm not
> particularly fluent in TeX, I haven't been able to make much headway so far.
> I'd appreciate some hints on where to start with this. I don't suppose
> there's any existing code for something like this? Maybe I'd be better off
> writing the bibliography by hand?

currently the bibtex support is being integrated in the core so if some 
extension is needed, we can try to deal with it, but only in mkiv (btw, 
next year it so we will provide a new (extra) interface to bibliographies)

- concerning 1: i'm sure users on this list can help you with that

- concerning 2: it is not that complex to add an extra level of 
filtering (using the type key), but we need an example first; best 
coordinate this with Thomas Schmitz who does testing of the latest code

Hans

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