From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5542 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: m-bib: passing extra information to \cite Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 17:24:10 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010907172330.030828f0@server-1> References: <3B988205.D0802432@elvenkind.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010906214816.00a7bd90@public.uni-hamburg.de> <5.1.0.14.1.20010907123745.02e18ec8@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396129 2574 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:02:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: Taco Hoekwater In-Reply-To: <3B98C206.AC626E47@elvenkind.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5542 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5542 At 02:48 PM 9/7/2001 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >Hans Hagen wrote: > > > > \definecomplexorsimple\cite > > > > now \cite[bla] and \cite{bla} both work (but i favor the [] only approach). > >Roughly speaking, this is what happens now. But soon we will probably have >calling conventions like \cite[...][...][..=..] or \cite {..}[..][..]{..} >(more or less the same as for \in), and supporting the latex syntax is >getting problematic. Besides that, there is usually other stuff wrong >with bibtex (latex) databases, like commands that are defined in the >preamble using \newcommand; \text... commands in the text; etc. > >Eventually, I plan to phase out bibtex alltogether, and replace it with >an XML input filter (with a formalized DTD). that's indeed the way to go, [and them write a perl script that converts bin databases). we can discuss this at eurotex Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------