Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
I wasn't precise enough: for German bibliographies, there's a convention to have works with an author sorted by the author's name and edited books by the first word of the title, like so:
At first I thought: that is really weird. But then I realised that this is also how edited story collections are sorted in dutch libraries, so perhaps it is not that weird.
[1] Hoekwater, Taco: Title... [2] Das Xylophon, hrsg. von...% sorted under "X"!!!
Doing the 'Das' thing properly would be a nightmare, But that is why Bibtex has this \noopsort trick. rt=title sorts every book by title. I guess the only way to achieve
this would be by cheating bibtex and putting some tokens in front of
Adding a specialized sort routine to the context bst file would not be that hard. If you run a diff between cont-au.bst en cont-ti.bst, you'll see that they are almost the same. What I need is an exact description of which bibtex types are affected, and what you think the name of the sort routine should be for use in \setupbibtex[sort=] Cheers, Taco