Re: [NTG-context] Different authorconversion for citation alternatives and bibliographic entries

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alan Braslau Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2021 21:11 An: mailing list for ConTeXt users ; Maier, Denis Christian (UB) Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Different authorconversion for citation alternatives and bibliographic entries

On 30/06/21 12:59, denis.maier@unibe.ch wrote:

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Hi,

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ntg-context Im Auftrag von Ágoston Volcz Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2021 10:20 An:ntg-context@ntg.nl Betreff: [NTG-context] Different authorconversion for citation alternatives and bibliographic entries

Hi there,

My university has special requirements for the theses I submit. Layout, fonts etc. are pretty straightforward to set up in ConTeXt. The one part I'm struggling with is citations / bibliography. I have to use the german citation style with footnotes. Essentially the first time I cite something, I have to put the full entry in a footnote. From the second time on, I only have to put a shorter entry in the footnotes. Is this first citation vs other citations thing currently possible with ConTeXt? I was thinking that there was no proper support for note style citations in ConTeXt? Has that changed? I remember reading the phrase "We may add additional citation styles if there demand and clear requirements exist." So what's the current state of affairs here?

Denis

Indeed (one can always use \footnote{} but that might not be a good substitute for a proper footnote citation style.

I do not use footnote citations as a general style (and personally dislike it, finding them somewhat distracting and sloppy). Yet these are popular in many fields and there is no reason not to support it.

So what would be needed to make add real support for it?