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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [bib] getting full author(s)'s name(s)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:31:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7503BC.5010501@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100211205621.GA6755@aides.aides.com>

Philipp Gesang wrote:
> Good evening,
> 
> 
> how do I retrieve an author's (or editor's) full name in the correct
> order (little endian: first name(s) -- surname) from a bib entry?

> I can do stuff like \getcitedata[author1] but that does leave me with
> only one of many.
> 
> I'm convinced the answer lies somewhere hidden in bibl-tra.mkiv inside
> \complexbibdef and particularly \specialbibinsert but I can't grasp the
> relevant part (getting the list) of it.

If you are talking about \cite then the answer is not in
\specialbibinsert, but in \bibauthorref, which is quite
complicated because of sorting.

Sorry, you just can't do this right now.

Best wishes,
Taco
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-12  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-11 20:56 Philipp Gesang
2010-02-12  7:31 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2010-02-12 11:06   ` Philipp Gesang

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