Philipp Gesang wrote:

Hi all,

yesterday I tried to use some BibTeX bibliography that I made earlier for use with biblatex but I very soon ended up converting a garbled .bbl to proper \[start|stop]publication format. So my first question is, whether this, without BibTeX, is the canonical way to typeset bibliographies in ConTeXt?

I am not sure what 'this' refer to (esp. the reference to biblatex), but I can tell you that using \[start|stop]publication blocks in a hand-written bbl file is the way to go if you don't want to use bibtex.

The second question: where would I begin if I wanted to setup (a) an author-title format for \cite[] (I found no "\bibgetvarX" function to query the publication title),

Somewhat answered in my other mail, maybe, but if you actually want \cite[title] to do something, then you need to define a macro called \bibtitleref, which is not all that easy. It is a lot easier to write a special use macro based on \getcitedata

and (b) substitution of consecutive identical authornames with dashes (or "idem", if that matters) in the publications list.

IIRC, there has been a solution posted to this list a while back (but not by me) Best wishes, Taco