From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/53047 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Need help with bibliography Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:53:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86d68cc30909200430s61aaf373h7f990791689f956b@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253480057 25459 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2009 20:54:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:54:17 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 20 22:54:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MpTQA-0007x8-9q for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:54:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56545C9AB7; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:54:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id lxfXejoeWRQx; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:54:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E77C9A47; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:54:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E19C9A47 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:54:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id DHX07kgSKuPf for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:53:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.113]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC38C9A1F for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:53:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [87.178.117.181] (account tschmit1@uni-bonn.de HELO [192.168.0.2]) by fe2.uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.12) with ESMTPA id 23830004 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:53:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <86d68cc30909200430s61aaf373h7f990791689f956b@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:53047 Archived-At: 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][], 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________