Re: Need help with bibliography

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Mika Ritola wrote:
>
>> 2009/9/20 Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> I'll try to give a clearer explanation. First of all, when I cite a source
>> using e.g. \cite[Smith2000], this should appear in the text as "Smith 
>> 2000".
>> I've already managed to do this. Now, each entry in the bibliography should
>> begin with the same string that was used to identify it within the text. 
>> So,
>> the above example should look something like this:
>> 
>> Smith 2000<tab>John Smith. Generic Book Title. Whatever Publishing Company,
>> New York 2000.
>> 
>> I know I can get the "John Smith" by using \insertauthors in
>> \setuppublicationlayout. But how do I get just the last name?
>
> I do not know an inbuilt way of doing this. You can probably use an ugly 
> hacks like this:

Slightly more clean solution. The current value of the citation is stored 
as \@@pbk, so you can use \cite to extract whatever data you want. So,

\setuppublicationlayout[article]%
  {\insertartauthors {\cite[alternative=authoryear,
 			   left=,right={\quad}][\@@pbk]} {,} {}%
   \insertarttitle   {\space\quotation\bgroup}
                                  {,\egroup} {}%
   \insertjournal    {\space\bgroup \it}
                         {\unskip\/\egroup} {}%
   \insertvolume     {,\space vol.~}
         {\insertissue {,\space no.~} {} {}} {}%
   \insertpages      {,\space pp.\space}       {} {}%
   \insertpubyear    {,\space\insertmonth{}{\space}{}}
                                          {} {}%
   \insertnote       {.\space}            {.} {.}}


Aditya
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