Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography in MKIV, custom rendering

On 2017-08-12 22:38, Alan Braslau wrote:

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On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:58:53 -0400 Rik Kabel wrote:

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The lack of either an author or an editor is currently flagged in ConTeXt as an error for books and perhaps other bibtex entry types as well. Or do you mean to apply this recommendation to only the electronic type or some other limited subset of types? This will be corrected for types other than electronic when I look into a consistent set.

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Perhaps it is better to use the association name as an author and protect it with a layer of curlies or quotation marks, as {{Apple, Inc.}}, "{Apple, Inc.}", or '{Apple, Inc.}', any one of which will do the job and also serve to prevent what would surely be unwanted abbreviation for styles that abbreviate what are parsed as given names. This won't happen. We made a design choice not to follow such sloppy bibtex/LaTeX use and to require clean datasets. Apple Inc. is NOT a named author, it is an organization, and the APA specification is clear about this (it even has screwy rules about the first citation and then the following when one should abbreviate names [such as APA]). Of course, the specifications have to be fixed to handle this correctly and consistently, also trying to be consistent with the fields that are defined by the original bibtex documentation and followed by many bibtex manipulating tools (such as jabref). The problem is that the use of bibtex in the real world is a big mess!

ALan

So organization will simply become a stand-in for author but with different parsing rules. A book will require an author or editor or organization. The first two will be parsed for surname, given name, and so on, while the last will not, and precedence rules will apply when more than one is present, as they do already.

But until that point, as Hans said, using the author field and protecting it with curlies will work.

How will other screwy rules be handled? Will there be an override mechanism, or is it your belief that a compliant subsystem can be developed? (Yes, I know that is a false dichotomy.)

On 8/13/2017 5:13 AM, Rik Kabel wrote: there is actually a concept of field sets and a lookup order concerning authors, there are many issues there: upto 6 snippets and the number determines what is expected (mostly inherited from the mess but we added some in order to deal with complex combinations of names) also, keep in mind that there's more than english names all revealed in the manual (and we wil make some demos) as one can export one can also easily generate one's one variant of the database for whatever purpose (another nightmare is embedded tex: absolutely not standardized and a pain when trying to collapse and sort) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------