Thanks very much for your suggestion, Taco! I'm afraid it doesn't seem to work quite as expected, however :- ( Could you have a look below?

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Hi,

I've been wondering whether someone (perhaps Taco?) can give me a hint on the following:

1. Is there an automated way to place citations into footnotes? So whenever I use \cite in the running text it should produce a footnote with the reference alongside the usual footnotes. However, when \cite is invoked within a footnote it should just type out the reference inline (in the footnote, of course ;-). So far I've done this manually with \footnote{\cite{key}} (which at times produced its own strange results like two footnote blocks on the same page).

There is no other way. If you strangeness as a result from this, then it is a bug in the footnote handling that is (should be) unrelated to the bibliography module.

Ok. As for the strange things happening I was able to hunt them down and prepare a simple example (still with the standard \startquotation): --- \usemodule [bib] \startpublication[k=akey,t=book,a={{Ody}},y=2006] \author{Some}{B.}{Ody} \pubyear{2006} \stoppublication \starttext \input tufte \footnote{\cite[akey]} \startquotation \input tufte \footnote{\cite[akey]} \stopquotation \startquotation \input tufte \stopquotation \footnote{\cite[akey]} \input ward \startquotation \input tufte \stopquotation \footnote{\cite[akey]} \input ward \footnote{\cite[akey]} \stoptext --- Please note what happens to the footnotes depending on whether the \cite command is before or after \stopquotation. Also when the narrow text block extends over a page boundary the ordering of the footnotes is mixed up ...

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2. When typesetting a quotation block I'd like to add a reference directly after the closing quotation marks. However, including the \cite command before \stopquotation places the reference before the closing marks, and moving \cite out of the \start \stop block makes the reference appear on a new line ...

The next solution is a bit rude, but works:

% First define an internal version of quotations. It will % typeset the contents of the macro \MyMagic at the end, % just after the symbol. % \definedelimitedtext [myquotation] [left={\symbol[leftquotation]}, right={\symbol[rightquotation]\MyMagic}, leftmargin=standard]

% And this is simply a wrapper for ease of use % \long\def\startcitedquotation[#1]#2\stopcitedquotation {\bgroup \def\MyMagic{~\cite[#1]} \startmyquotation #2\stopmyquotation \egroup}

% usage:

\starttext

\startcitedquotation[schmitz2006] overly beautiful pusillanimous sesquipedalian longwinded \stopcitedquotation

\stoptext

I tried that one but ran into several problems unfortunately. If \cite inserts anything but a tiny string these words won't be wrapped properly onto a new line. Also if I replace \cite[#1] by \footnote {\cite[#1]} then there will be no footnote at all :-( Oliver

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Ok. As for the strange things happening I was able to hunt them down and prepare a simple example (still with the standard \startquotation):

We are looking into this. All footnotes in vertical mode are behaving oddly.

Thanks!

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I tried that one but ran into several problems unfortunately. If \cite inserts anything but a tiny string these words won't be wrapped properly onto a new line. Also if I replace \cite[#1] by \footnote {\cite[#1]} then there will be no footnote at all :-(

The missing linebreak is probably realted to the problem as in the other thread, so you just have to wait a little bit longer, until that is fixed for this problem to magically go away as well.

Yep, I'll be waiting for some black magic ;-)

The disappearing footnote may be unfixable within \startquotation. It would be easier to define your own start-stop pair for this, because \startquotation ... \stopquotation doesn't actually support tacking on stuff at the end. Try this instead:

\long\def\startcitedquotation[#1]#2\stopcitedquotation {\bgroup \par \startnarrower \symbol[leftquotation]% #2\removeunwantedspaces \symbol[rightquotation]% \cite[#1] \stopnarrower \par \egroup}

Works like a charm! Thanks very much for the workaround ... I've adapted it slightly so that the optional argument is treated as generic text ... in order to use \cite[], \footnote{\cite[]} or whatever else I need. Could this optional argument perhaps be integrated directly in the usual \startquotation command some day? I guess a lot of people will need this ... every quotation calls for a proper reference ;-) Cheers, Oliver

Hi all, I've always the same old problem described in Re: [NTG-context] enco-ffr ? (03.12.2006 00:49), even with the latest ConTeXt... Is there a way to solve these problems (since it could be nice to me to be able to process my PhD dissertation, particularly to write about it...) TIA Renaud Taco Hoekwater a écrit :

Yep, I'll be waiting for some black magic ;-)

There is a new current context that Hans uploaded just moments ago, that should fix the line wrapping problem with \quotations. There is some other stuff as well of course:

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2006.12.07

has all the details.

Best, Taco

Hans Hagen a écrit :

i've forgotten what it was; i did fix the mp related semi colon stuff didn't I?

Hi Hans, You've add \appendtoks \disablediscretionaries \disablecompoundcharacters \to\everyMPgraphic to meta-ini.tex but the problem is persistent. Moreover, The following example raises another class of problem induced by the use of the semicolon with \in: \useencoding[ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] \starttext text:\blank text;\blank text?\blank text!\blank A sample table is given: \in{tableau}[tab:mytab]. \placetable[here][tab:mytab]{Test}{ \bTABLE \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE } \startuseMPgraphic{test} numeric u; u:=1cm; draw origin--(10u,10u); \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext Renaud