Re: [NTG-context] How to extend btx rendering?

18 Jul 2016

      Alan,

thanks for your speedy reply.  Actually, I also dislike the scattered
specification of `eprint` and `archivePrefix`, but thought that it might
be better to keep it for interoperability between ConTeXt and biblatex.

The solution you sent to me works nicely and looks very clean.  I will
repeat it here, because you only sent it to me personally instead of the
list and it might be helpful to other people, so here it is:

@electronic{Kudryashov2016,
    title = {Normal State of the Metallic Hydrogen Sulfide},
    author = {Kudryashov, Nikolay A. and Kutukov, Alexander A. and
    Mazur, Evgeny A.},
    year = {2016},
    howpublished = {arxiv:1607.04624},
    url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04624},
}

I think it would be advantageous to also have the eprint/howpublished
field available for @article such that I can link the arXiv even though
an article has been published.  This way people without subscription to
a specific journal can readily access the preprint (open-access
philosophy).  Do you consider this a viable option?

Cheers,
Henri

On 07/18/2016 05:40 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
...
On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:06:06 +0200
Henri Menke  wrote:
...
But I don't want to edit any system files, because this is not
portable. Also I don't want to have a copy of this file in my project
directory, because this is just redundant.
How can I add the two fields `eprint` and `archivePrefix` to
`categories.article.optional` from the document level?
Hi Henri,
eprint and archivePrefix are in no ways standard to bibtex.
But really, an eprint is NOT an *article* until it gets published, and
then it should be cited as an article and not as a preprint.
What you are looking for is a way to attach a label "arXiv:1607.04624"
to the url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04624}, similarly to how a doi
is handled.
I can easily add the field arxiv to the "aps" rendering as it is
well-defined.
I can also add the field eprint (to be combined with the url field) as
in
  eprint = {arxiv:1607.04624},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04624},
as this use can be pretty general. But I do *not* like the
archivePrefix use of biblatex as it is a good example of bloat and
feature creep.
So I will modify the aps specifications to be used as
@unpublished{Kudryashov2016,
    title = {Normal State of the Metallic Hydrogen Sulfide},
    author = {Kudryashov, Nikolay A. and Kutukov, Alexander A. and
    Mazur, Evgeny A.},
    year = {2016},
    eprint = {arxiv:1607.04624},
    url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04624},
}
Alan