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On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:27 +0200, Philipp Gesang wrote:
Sorry, my bad. I forgot that the builtin “\cite” macro takes bracketed args, not braced ... So, the listing below is tested, make sure you have the file context/bib/sample.bib in $PWD:
········································································ \setupbibtex[ database=sample, sort=author, ]
\setuppublications[ alternative=apa, ]
\glet\originalcite\cite \let\cite\relax
\unprotect
\def\cite{\dodoubleempty\do_cite}
\def\do_cite[#1][#2]{% %%% Wraps citations into footnotes. \iffirstargument \startfootnote \ifsecondargument \originalcite[#1][#2]% \else \originalcite[#1]% \fi \stopfootnote \fi% }
\protect
\starttext
\section{nova methodos referendi} \input knuth\cite[hh2010]
\stoptext \endinput
Thanks a lot Philipp. That's pretty comprehensive.
You get footnote citations (see above). The problem is how you (or your bib style, for that matter) define *full citation*. If it’s ok to have the crippled version like “Leibniz, G. W.” instead of “Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm” or (as I needed it) without inversion “Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz”, it might suffice to use “\cite[alternative=data][my_bib_key]”.
Yes, I've been using data for now. I'm just struggling to figure out how to stylize it properly.
I’ve been following this thread and it would appear that most people who are in some way working with citations / bibliographies are avoiding the built-in facilities.
I think the problem is that a lot of us jumped into ConTeXt's bibliography support without realizing that it is not really mature enough to be usable for professional use yet. It takes a lot of work.
I confess I’m no exception; writing my own bib support was in fact a prerequisite that made Context usable for me in the first place. It handles these full citations, inverted author or not, but it’s by no means a general solution. If you’re really stuck with your citation issues I can mail you the repo off-list, but you will have to know your way around (occasionally badly written) Lua code in order to adapt it in any way.
Thanks a lot for the generous offer, but sadly I probably wouldn't know what to do with it. Unlike a lot of people on this list, my first exposure to digital typesetting came with ConTeXt which would make such a thing very painful. On top of that, I'd have to be more comfortable with Lua.
On the other hand, there’s been an announcement by Paul Isambert some time ago that his *Librarian* package cooperates with Context in some way:
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20100405.024343.6e4aa50d.en.html From the documentation it looks pretty powerful. Have never used it myself, though.
Sorry for the delay, exams and stuff ... Philipp
No problem Philipp. Thanks for your help. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com