Re: Bibliography help - some problems I have noticed

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hi,
Curiouslearn wrote:

> (0)  Do I need bibltx for latex databases?

No. These days, the ConTeXt core defines \newcommand so the bibltx
module is obsolete.

> (0.5) Using \type{\cite[author,year][BergstromBagnoli2005]} just 
> returns the key in the document

This is caused by the \cite[author,year][] input. If the first argument
of \cite[] has a comma, it is taken to be the list of references, and
the second set of square brackets is just typeset text.
Use \cite[authoryear][] or \cite[authoryears][].

> (1) If the Key has a paranthesis, the \cite[Reference] gives empty brackets.

In this example, I do not know what is wrong, but adding an
explicit first argument to \cite fixes it. It could be that the
optional argument parser in ConTeXt gets confused by the ().

> (2) If I use \cite[author][Reference] then I get a line break after
> the opening paranthesis.

This is a bug in current mkiv that was also mentioned in a thread last
week. Should be fixed in this beta or one of the next ones.

As a workaround, you can add

   \usepublications[\jobname]

just after the \usemodule[bib] line

> (3) Also, note that I refer to only one paper of Daughety and
> Reinganum in the minimal example below. However, because there are two
> papers by them in my database, the References section lists the year
> as (2000a) instead of just (2000). The bbl file generated contains all
> the references in my database and not only the once I have cited.

Adding

   \def\maybeyear#1{}

works around this. It is one of the few bibtex features that I have
not found a good solution for. Otherwise, just remove the \setupbibtex
command from the source and edit the bbl file by hand.

> Should it not contain only the ones I have cited in the document.

No, it always contains the entire database. That is why manuak editing
is possible.

Best wishes,
Taco
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