Re: YABQ (yet another bib question...)

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>]

> Is it possible to refer back to item [1] automatically, by sticking
> the "reprinted in" in a "note" field in the database? I tried a
> number of combinations of \crossref or so, but couldn't get this to
> work.

I need to repeat my experiments, but I think it worked to use simply
\cite in the bibtex entry.  Ah, here is one example.  It uses
xampl.bib, which comes with old distributions of ConTeXt (e.g. teTeX
3.0's distribution).

[Taco: The reference to Knuth below comes out as (Knuth, 1981c) even
though there are no other 1981 entries for Knuth cited in the text.
Is that hard to fix given ConTeXt's way of dealing with bibtex, in
that it just incorporates the entire database, in which there are
several 1981 entries from Knuth?]

===================== cut here ========
\usemodule[bib]
\usemodule[bibltx]
\setupbibtex[database=xampl]
\starttext

Here is a citation to a book that contains a cross reference:
\cite[book-crossref].  The bibliography entry (next page) for it
should contain a bib reference to another item in the bibliography.

\completepublications
\stoptext
===================== cut here ========

Here are the relevant entries from xampl.bib, which indicates that
it's the crossref= line that you need (not \cite as I said above)v:

@BOOK{book-crossref,
   crossref = "whole-set",
   title = "Seminumerical Algorithms",
   volume = 2,
   series = "The Art of Computer Programming",
   edition = "Second",
   year = "{\noopsort{1973c}}1981",
   note = "This is a cross-referencing BOOK entry",
}

@BOOK{whole-set,
   author = "Donald E. Knuth",
   publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
   title = "The Art of Computer Programming",
   series = "Four volumes",
   year = "{\noopsort{1973a}}{\switchargs{--90}{1968}}",
   note = "Seven volumes planned (this is a cross-referenced set of
   BOOKs)",
}

-Sanjoy

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