On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:22:54 +0100
"Thomas A. Schmitz"
maybeyear is one of the areas that need fixing. The simple on/off mechanism is not sufficient, because the behavior needs to be more complex:
1. If the citation style does not use the year as a key, do not append letters.
2. If the citation style uses year as key and only one publication/year of an author is quoted and listed (even if there are several in the bib file) do not append letter.
3. Append letter if citation style uses year AND more than one publication/year for given author is quoted and listed.
I assume that in order for this to work, Hans will have to rewrite the code which produces the .bbl file from the bib. Right now, AFAICS, the .bbl contains the entire .bib database. It should only contain the entries which are cited.
Alan, does that make sense to you?
Yes Perhaps the .bbl could contain the entire .bib database with the filtering taking place then in lua/ConTeXt. How this is handled internally is a programming, not a user issue. I do agree with your assessment of when to and when not to append a letter to the year as listed. Alan