m-bib questions/remarks

["Eckhart Guthöhrlein" <eckhart_guthoehrlein@public.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi,

I just started to use the bib module for accessing my existing bibtex 
databases. I have some remarks/questions. First, my minimal input file:

\usemodule[bib]
\setupbibtex[database=test,sort=no]
\starttext
	\cite[a], \cite[b], \cite[c]
	\completelistofpublications
\stoptext

1. The first TeX run works fine, and so does running BibTeX. But in the 
subsequent TeX run, I get an error message because of an undefined control 
sequence \etalchar. This seems to be used for the short labels. I do not 
need them, so I said \def\etalchar#1{#1} as workaround, but I do not think 
that everything is as it should be now.

2. If I omit "sort=no" from the setup (since it is the default), TeX 
complains about \@@pbsort being undefined during the first run, probably an 
internal problem of the module.

3. I am unable to change the citation format. 
\setuppublications[refcommand=authoryears] has no effect, nor has 
\setupcite[author][]. However, \cite[authoryears][a] works fine, so a 
workaround is not difficult to do.

4. If there are abbreviations used only in titles in the list of 
publications, they won't make their way into the list of abbreviations. I 
guess I have to take care of them myself? I have noticed the same if you 
use another abbreviations in the full text for an abbreviation, and if this 
the only occurence of the second abbreviation, so that it is called only in 
the list of abbreviations. My workaround is "{\setbox0{\hbox{\EXMPL}}}" in 
the text, any better suggestions?

If these problems are my fault, please tell me, if they are due to the beta 
stage of the module, please consider this a bug-report (1-3) or feature 
suggestion (4).

Bye,
Eckhart