[NTG-context] Problem with the bib module (yeah, so what else is new)

30 Mar 2005


      OK, another one of those "hey, the bib module has an issue"-kind of
mails.  The problem is that \bibdoif and its relatives don't work.
They always evaluate to true.  I have tried to figure out why this is
so, but I'm just not good enough at reading TeX macros (yet).  The main
problem is that I want to do something like this for my
\setuppublicationlist:

\doglobal\newif\ifBIBLoutputbeforesurname
\global\BIBLoutputbeforesurnamefalse

\def\BIBLwholename#1#2#3#4#5%
  {\bibdoif{#1}{#1\unskip\bibalternative\c!firstnamesep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}%
   \bibdoif{#4}{#4\unskip\bibalternative\c!firstnamesep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}%
   \bibdoif{#2}{#2\unskip\bibalternative\c!vonsep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}%
   \ifBIBLoutputbeforesurname \else
     \unskip%
     \BIBLoutputbeforesurnamefalse%
   \fi
   #3\bibalternative\c!surnamesep%
   \bibdoif{#5}{#5\unskip}}

The problem is that one can't have

\author[]{}[]{}{Organization}

without extra spaces appearing before the Organization.  Another issue is that
extra spaces occur between the first and last name in the \normalauthor
style,
        nikolai

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