Re: Need help with bibliography

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Hi,

I'm not sure I can be of much help (hopefully Taco will have a look),  
but just a few thoughts:

On Sep 20, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Mika Ritola wrote:

>
> 1. This one's probably very simple: there's the /insertauthors macro  
> for inserting the whole name of the author. But how do you insert  
> just the last name of the author?
>
If you just want the last name, you can use \cite[author][<citekey>],  
but I'm not sure if this what you're after, maybe you'll need to tell  
us more.

> 2. This one, on the other hand, is likely to be rather non-trivial:  
> the bibliography needs to be broken up into several categories of  
> sources. For example, audiovisual sources, newspaper sources and  
> books should be listed under separate headings, somewhat like this:
>
> BIBLIOGRAPHY
>
> I. AUDIOVISUAL SOURCES
>
> [some sources]
>
> II. NEWSPAPER SOURCES
>
> [...]
>
> III. BOOKS
>
> [...]
>
> I've tried to decipher the source code of the Bib module but as I'm  
> not particularly fluent in TeX, I haven't been able to make much  
> headway so far. I'd appreciate some hints on where to start with  
> this. I don't suppose there's any existing code for something like  
> this? Maybe I'd be better off writing the bibliography by hand?
>
That sounds harder. You basically need three separate bibliographies,  
each of them sorted in some way. I'm not certain the current  
implementation of the bib module can do that (i.e. I'm almost certain  
it can't). How do you want to refer to these items in your text?  
Again, we'll probably need some more information about what you want  
to achieve.

Best

Thomas
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