From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/53043 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Need help with bibliography Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:47:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4AB65CA6.80408@wxs.nl> References: <86d68cc30909200430s61aaf373h7f990791689f956b@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"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253465288 17250 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2009 16:48:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:48:08 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 20 18:48:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MpPZw-0002kh-Vg for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:48:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29FDC9A9B; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:47:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9RmnAUOGkVhr; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:47:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C20C9A63; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:47:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCE2C9A63 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:47:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Zg21q4ubbNxG for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:47:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E0EC9A1F for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:47:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 9687-1840426 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:47:34 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <86d68cc30909200430s61aaf373h7f990791689f956b@mail.gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:53043 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________