On 12/7/2018 22:51, Alan Braslau wrote:
You can place references rendered as you need, not necessarily in one single bibliography list, but they must be rendered somewhere, otherwise numbering and cross-referencing is meaningless. In the case of footnote references, each footnote contains a rendering (not a citation) of a fragment of the list.
You are thinking too much in a standard frame, and I'm not sure what you want to accomplish.
One "other use" case that I make is a catalog of hundreds of mesophases. I "cite" them and their various properties throughout the text, an my "list rendering" has become an index.
Alan
I would like simply to prepare a paper structured like the one found at https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/Greenblatt%20Lecture.pdf. There is no biblography; there are bibliographic references in footnotes. There is no interaction. The only cross-references are the footnote indices. If I could in addition pull in blocks of text from a secondary database, that is lagniappe. Neither function requires rendering in a separate list or lists. Certainly ConTeXt's bibliographic subsystem should be capable of supporting such a basic format as that, but I can see no way to get it to do so. -- Rik