On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Mika Ritola wrote:
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? The answer is probably so simple that I should be ashamed that I can't figure it out by myself but I haven't quite gotten the hang of ConTeXt and TeX yet...
Ah, so it turns out you're looking for something else altogether. In your case, you want a special kind of label for your bibliographic list. See if Aditya's hack gives the result you want. But generally speaking, I think your setup is pretty common in the humanities, so it should be added as a key to the processactionlist in l. 308-316 of bibl-tra.mkiv. Hans, Taco, is there a proper syntax for getting the lastname and year of the current bib item?
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.
I think it would be easiest if I could refer to them in the usual way, using \cite[Smith2000]. Of course, each item in the .bib file should have some kind of a tag, so that ConTeXt could automagically insert it under the correct heading.
Well, Hans said it was possible. You'll need to define an additional field to filter your items and then have three lists typeset. Thomas