Re: Need help with bibliography

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> 
> On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Mika Ritola wrote:
> 
>> I'll try to give a clearer explanation. First of all, when I cite a 
>> source using e.g. \cite[Smith2000], this should appear in the text as 
>> "Smith 2000". I've already managed to do this. Now, each entry in the 
>> bibliography should begin with the same string that was used to 
>> identify it within the text. So, the above example should look 
>> something like this:
>>
>> Smith 2000<tab>John Smith. Generic Book Title. Whatever Publishing 
>> Company, New York 2000.
>>
>> I know I can get the "John Smith" by using \insertauthors in 
>> \setuppublicationlayout. But how do I get just the last name? The 
>> answer is probably so simple that I should be ashamed that I can't 
>> figure it out by myself but I haven't quite gotten the hang of ConTeXt 
>> and TeX yet...
> 
> Ah, so it turns out you're looking for something else altogether. In 
> your case, you want a special kind of label for your bibliographic list. 
> See if Aditya's hack gives the result you want. But generally speaking, 
> I think your setup is pretty common in the humanities, so it should be 
> added as a key to the processactionlist in l. 308-316 of bibl-tra.mkiv. 
> Hans, Taco, is there a proper syntax for getting the lastname and year 
> of the current bib item?

The best approach may be to put the lastname+space+year in the 's'
key, and use

   \setuppublications[refcommand=short,
                      numbering=short]

Best wishes,
Taco

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