Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

Jörg Weger

16 Jan 2015 16 Jan '15

5:08 a.m.

Hello everybody, I am rather new to ConTeXt and I am momentarily stuck with the following: How can I further format the way an inline reference and a bibliographic reference in the publications list are displayed? For example I would like to display the author(s) in spaced-out small caps (I am using the “letterspace” module). The year should be in oldstyle numbers both in the inline reference and in the publications list. An inline-reference should like this (simulated without BibTeX, letterspacing slightly exaggerated): % ====== MWE =============================== \usemodule[t][letterspace] \defineletterspace [LSsmcp] \setupletterspace [LSsmcp][factor=.08, spaceskip=.4em, suppresskern=no,] \starttext \input knuth ({\LSsmcp {\sc Knuth}} {\os 1991}) \input zapf \stoptext % ========================================== I have defaulted oldstyle numbers my environment but I would like to get the the small caps working for the author(s) name(s). I messed around with \setuppublications and \setupcite without success. Is there a way to invoke such formatting in those setups? Greetings Joerg

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Alan BRASLAU

16 Jan 16 Jan

1:18 p.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

We have completely rewritten the bibliography subsystem of ConTeXt which is not quite production-ready. It should become easier to create custom renderings of bibliography references and publication lists. Do you wish to mix old style numbers for the years with normal style numbers for volume, number, chapter, page, etc.? If so, would such a mix look strange? Do you want only the author names in small capitals, or also the editor? What about the title, journal, publisher, ... ? I suppose all names, but not other text. I do not have any suggestion with the use of the "old" bibliography module, and the new system is, as I said, not quite ready. But please clarify what you are looking for so that we can make this somehow possible. Alan On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 06:08:36 +0100 Jörg Weger wrote:

...

Hello everybody,

I am rather new to ConTeXt and I am momentarily stuck with the following:

How can I further format the way an inline reference and a bibliographic reference in the publications list are displayed? For example I would like to display the author(s) in spaced-out small caps (I am using the “letterspace” module). The year should be in oldstyle numbers both in the inline reference and in the publications list. An inline-reference should like this (simulated without BibTeX, letterspacing slightly exaggerated):

% ====== MWE ===============================

\usemodule[t][letterspace] \defineletterspace [LSsmcp] \setupletterspace [LSsmcp][factor=.08, spaceskip=.4em, suppresskern=no,]

\starttext

\input knuth ({\LSsmcp {\sc Knuth}} {\os 1991})

\input zapf

\stoptext

% ==========================================

I have defaulted oldstyle numbers my environment but I would like to get the the small caps working for the author(s) name(s).

I messed around with \setuppublications and \setupcite without success. Is there a way to invoke such formatting in those setups?

Greetings

Joerg

Jörg Weger

17 Jan 17 Jan

6:23 a.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

Hi Alan What I am trying to achieve is the following (of which typesetting the author’s name is only a detail): setting up an environment that I can use for all papers and works that I have to write during my academic studies. With the basic layout I am almost done. The main remaining problem is to get the bibliographic information details in the publications list into the right order for every possible type of publication according to the standards demanded by my university department which differ from APA style. You ask what I am looking for: It would be great to be able at the same time to format every detail of information while defining said order. Defining that order could be done by giving a kind of “maximum case” with the exact order of the desired variables and the punctuation and blanks between them for every particular type of publication cited. Out of that “maximum case” the underlying mechanism would ignore everything not needed in the particular case of a certain publication. In the case of publication type “book” it could be something like: \setpublicationstyleforlist [type:book] [{invertedauthor1}{/}{invertedauthor2}{/}{invertedauthor3}{et al.}{ (}{year}{): }{title}{. }{address}{: }{publisher}{.}] The underlying mechanism would ignore author 2 and 3 if there was only one single author. In case of more than 3 authors given the “et al.” would be used after naming the first 3 authors. That system would be perfect, if you could do do the desired typographic formatting directly inside that definition: \setpublicationstyleforlist [type:book] [{\letterspace{\sc {invertedauthor}{/}{invertedauthor}{/}{invertedauthor}}{et al.}}{ (}{\oldstyle{year}}{): }{\it{title}}{. }{adress}{: }{publisher}{.}] Accordingly for the inline references: \setupcitestyle[{\letterspace{\sc{authorlastname}{ et al.}}}{ }{\oldstyle{year}}] There should be a possibility to invoke a certain citation style you have defined from a text file so you would not have to type (respectively copy/paste) everything again every time. The advantage of such a system would be that everybody could define exactly what he/she needs. Would that be very difficult to implement? Then there are the cases where the definition work has already be done in the form of special XML files: Over 7,000 CSL (= citation style language) files are listed for download at the citationstyles.org website. Pandoc seems to have a way to use CSL files to filter, order and format the information from BibTeX files. It would be great if you could do that directly inside ConTeXt as well. \ConTeXtualGreetings :) Jörg PS: I have (as I wrote) defaulted oldstyle numbers for my whole environment, so I am not mixing old and normal style. On 16.01.2015 14:18, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

...

We have completely rewritten the bibliography subsystem of ConTeXt which is not quite production-ready. It should become easier to create custom renderings of bibliography references and publication lists.

Do you wish to mix old style numbers for the years with normal style numbers for volume, number, chapter, page, etc.? If so, would such a mix look strange?

Do you want only the author names in small capitals, or also the editor? What about the title, journal, publisher, ... ? I suppose all names, but not other text.

I do not have any suggestion with the use of the "old" bibliography module, and the new system is, as I said, not quite ready. But please clarify what you are looking for so that we can make this somehow possible.

Alan

On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 06:08:36 +0100 Jörg Weger wrote:

...
Hello everybody,

I am rather new to ConTeXt and I am momentarily stuck with the following:

How can I further format the way an inline reference and a bibliographic reference in the publications list are displayed? For example I would like to display the author(s) in spaced-out small caps (I am using the “letterspace” module). The year should be in oldstyle numbers both in the inline reference and in the publications list. An inline-reference should like this (simulated without BibTeX, letterspacing slightly exaggerated):

% ====== MWE ===============================

\usemodule[t][letterspace] \defineletterspace [LSsmcp] \setupletterspace [LSsmcp][factor=.08, spaceskip=.4em, suppresskern=no,]

\starttext

\input knuth ({\LSsmcp {\sc Knuth}} {\os 1991})

\input zapf

\stoptext

% ==========================================

I have defaulted oldstyle numbers my environment but I would like to get the the small caps working for the author(s) name(s).

I messed around with \setuppublications and \setupcite without success. Is there a way to invoke such formatting in those setups?

Greetings

Joerg

Hans Hagen

19 Jan 19 Jan

6:44 p.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

On 1/17/2015 7:23 AM, Jörg Weger wrote:

...

Hi Alan

What I am trying to achieve is the following (of which typesetting the author’s name is only a detail): setting up an environment that I can use for all papers and works that I have to write during my academic studies. With the basic layout I am almost done. The main remaining problem is to get the bibliographic information details in the publications list into the right order for every possible type of publication according to the standards demanded by my university department which differ from APA style.

You ask what I am looking for:

It would be great to be able at the same time to format every detail of information while defining said order.

Defining that order could be done by giving a kind of “maximum case” with the exact order of the desired variables and the punctuation and blanks between them for every particular type of publication cited. Out of that “maximum case” the underlying mechanism would ignore everything not needed in the particular case of a certain publication.

In the case of publication type “book” it could be something like:

\setpublicationstyleforlist [type:book] [{invertedauthor1}{/}{invertedauthor2}{/}{invertedauthor3}{et al.}{ (}{year}{): }{title}{. }{address}{: }{publisher}{.}]

... that not good enough: fields can be absent, there is no way to distinguish authors from titles and so ... the new mechanism we're making tries to cover a lot of aspects and it's not that trivial to also keep the interface simple then anyway, what we're talking of (currently) is: - datasets, where data comes from bib files, lua tables xml files or whatever gets interfaced - optional typing, which means that one can tell what fields represents what kind of data - fallback sets i.e a sequence that will be checked when a field is requested - virtual fields (think of numbers and author year combinations) - control via settings (the et-al thing as well as fences and punctuation) - rendering driven by setups so that users have full control (if they want) over what comes out - a bunch of helper macros (checking, spacing etc) - a collection of methods that can be applied to fields when they are called up - calling up citations by tag but also by a query - control over lists - automatic generation of registers - passing along extra data entered in the source - and more we don't know how many users will define renderings themselves but in principle it should not be too hard to copy existing setups and mess with them there is quite some tracing available because it can go wrong in many places (depending on the quality of the data) attached are two simple examples of how users can define things Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Alan BRASLAU

23 Jan 23 Jan

6:26 a.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

From what I can see, the only *significant* style difference that you seek is the use of \letterspace and \sc for names (authors or editors). The use of old numbers is trivial as they will be used if specified for the rest of the document. How else does your university's standard differ from the APA? All of the details of the layout are programmable using setups. By the way, the APA sort order is: authors(or editors), year, title (and possibly journal, volume, number, page). Alan On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:44:56 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

...

On 1/17/2015 7:23 AM, Jörg Weger wrote:

...
Hi Alan

What I am trying to achieve is the following (of which typesetting the author’s name is only a detail): setting up an environment that I can use for all papers and works that I have to write during my academic studies. With the basic layout I am almost done. The main remaining problem is to get the bibliographic information details in the publications list into the right order for every possible type of publication according to the standards demanded by my university department which differ from APA style.

You ask what I am looking for:

It would be great to be able at the same time to format every detail of information while defining said order.

Defining that order could be done by giving a kind of “maximum case” with the exact order of the desired variables and the punctuation and blanks between them for every particular type of publication cited. Out of that “maximum case” the underlying mechanism would ignore everything not needed in the particular case of a certain publication.

In the case of publication type “book” it could be something like:

\setpublicationstyleforlist [type:book] [{invertedauthor1}{/}{invertedauthor2}{/}{invertedauthor3}{et al.}{ (}{year}{): }{title}{. }{address}{: }{publisher}{.}]

... that not good enough: fields can be absent, there is no way to distinguish authors from titles and so ...

the new mechanism we're making tries to cover a lot of aspects and it's not that trivial to also keep the interface simple then

anyway, what we're talking of (currently) is:

- datasets, where data comes from bib files, lua tables xml files or whatever gets interfaced

- optional typing, which means that one can tell what fields represents what kind of data

- fallback sets i.e a sequence that will be checked when a field is requested

- virtual fields (think of numbers and author year combinations)

- control via settings (the et-al thing as well as fences and punctuation)

- rendering driven by setups so that users have full control (if they want) over what comes out

- a bunch of helper macros (checking, spacing etc)

- a collection of methods that can be applied to fields when they are called up

- calling up citations by tag but also by a query

- control over lists

- automatic generation of registers

- passing along extra data entered in the source

- and more

we don't know how many users will define renderings themselves but in principle it should not be too hard to copy existing setups and mess with them

there is quite some tracing available because it can go wrong in many places (depending on the quality of the data)

attached are two simple examples of how users can define things

Hans

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Jörg Weger

25 Jan 25 Jan

7:10 p.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

Thank You Alan and Hans for your efforts regarding my questions so far. After I had played a while with the examples Hans had attached, I have had a little success bei renaming copies of ~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/publ-imp-apa.lua and ~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/publ-imp-apa.mkiv to publ-imp-daf.lua and publ-imp-daf.mkiv (DaF stands for “Deutsch als Fremdsprache” = “German as a foreign language”, my subject of study) and putting those renamed copies into the same folder as a test file that should contain only in-text references and a publications list. I have started to set up a “real world” BibTeXt example from the examples in the style sheet we were given by the university. So far I have different examples for “book” and “incollection”. Inside the two new configuration files I replaced every occurrence of “apa” by “daf”. Then I edited publ-imp-daf.mkiv by trial and error. I managed to change punctuation/delimiters in the publications list, but did not fully succeed with the in-text reference. I understand now that it is not trivial to set up a style as there are many decisions to be taken. The problem I have regarding the publications list is that the order I need differs in some ways from apa which means I have to split some of the macros defined for apa. E.g. for “book” my order is author(s), year, title, (optional: edition), adress, publisher, (optional: series, volume) and for incollection author(s), year, title, editor(s), booktitle, publisher’s city adress, publisher, (optional: series, volume), page(s) I think I have yet to translate the other real world examples (mainly electronic media) into BibTeX before I start to ask further questions regarding the order in the publications list. For now I have an important question regarding in-text references: Is there a way to switch between the following citation modes? I have to manage: * normal reference in brackets: author <space> year, no comma: e.g. “(Einstein 1904)” * author is named in the text, only year in brackets: e.g. “As it has been proven by Einstein (1904) …” * if page numbers are to be given in the citation: colon after year, followed directly (without space) by page number(s)/range: e.g. “(Einstein 1904:351)” or “(Einstein 1904:251 f.)” or “(Einstein 1904:251 ff.)” or “(Einstein 1904:226–231)”. (“f.” and “ff.” are the German abreviations for “et seq.” respectively “et seqq.”) Is it possible to switch between those three modes? If not it would be great to implement that. “\cite[extras={}][<key>]” doesn’t seem to work anymore, so I cannot put page numbers manually. Greetings from Munich Jörg PS: Regarding the small caps from my original question: Those would be nice, but they are not obligatory—it is just my idea to let the references stick out more from the surrounding text and giving the whole thing more the impression of sophisticated typesetting :) For me it is much more important to get the information in the publications list into the right order first. On 23.01.2015 07:26, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

...

From what I can see, the only *significant* style difference that you seek is the use of \letterspace and \sc for names (authors or editors). The use of old numbers is trivial as they will be used if specified for the rest of the document.

How else does your university's standard differ from the APA?

All of the details of the layout are programmable using setups.

By the way, the APA sort order is: authors(or editors), year, title (and possibly journal, volume, number, page).

Alan

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:44:56 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

...
On 1/17/2015 7:23 AM, Jörg Weger wrote:

...
Hi Alan

What I am trying to achieve is the following (of which typesetting the author’s name is only a detail): setting up an environment that I can use for all papers and works that I have to write during my academic studies. With the basic layout I am almost done. The main remaining problem is to get the bibliographic information details in the publications list into the right order for every possible type of publication according to the standards demanded by my university department which differ from APA style.

You ask what I am looking for:

It would be great to be able at the same time to format every detail of information while defining said order.

Defining that order could be done by giving a kind of “maximum case” with the exact order of the desired variables and the punctuation and blanks between them for every particular type of publication cited. Out of that “maximum case” the underlying mechanism would ignore everything not needed in the particular case of a certain publication.

In the case of publication type “book” it could be something like:

\setpublicationstyleforlist [type:book] [{invertedauthor1}{/}{invertedauthor2}{/}{invertedauthor3}{et al.}{ (}{year}{): }{title}{. }{address}{: }{publisher}{.}]

... that not good enough: fields can be absent, there is no way to distinguish authors from titles and so ...

the new mechanism we're making tries to cover a lot of aspects and it's not that trivial to also keep the interface simple then

anyway, what we're talking of (currently) is:

- datasets, where data comes from bib files, lua tables xml files or whatever gets interfaced

- optional typing, which means that one can tell what fields represents what kind of data

- fallback sets i.e a sequence that will be checked when a field is requested

- virtual fields (think of numbers and author year combinations)

- control via settings (the et-al thing as well as fences and punctuation)

- rendering driven by setups so that users have full control (if they want) over what comes out

- a bunch of helper macros (checking, spacing etc)

- a collection of methods that can be applied to fields when they are called up

- calling up citations by tag but also by a query

- control over lists

- automatic generation of registers

- passing along extra data entered in the source

- and more

we don't know how many users will define renderings themselves but in principle it should not be too hard to copy existing setups and mess with them

there is quite some tracing available because it can go wrong in many places (depending on the quality of the data)

attached are two simple examples of how users can define things

Hans

----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Jörg Weger

7:13 p.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

...

From what I can see, the only *significant* style difference that you seek is the use of \letterspace and \sc for names (authors or editors). The use of old numbers is trivial as they will be used if specified for the rest of the document.

How else does your university's standard differ from the APA?

All of the details of the layout are programmable using setups.

By the way, the APA sort order is: authors(or editors), year, title (and possibly journal, volume, number, page).

Alan

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:44:56 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

...
On 1/17/2015 7:23 AM, Jörg Weger wrote:

...
Hi Alan

What I am trying to achieve is the following (of which typesetting the author’s name is only a detail): setting up an environment that I can use for all papers and works that I have to write during my academic studies. With the basic layout I am almost done. The main remaining problem is to get the bibliographic information details in the publications list into the right order for every possible type of publication according to the standards demanded by my university department which differ from APA style.

You ask what I am looking for:

It would be great to be able at the same time to format every detail of information while defining said order.

Defining that order could be done by giving a kind of “maximum case” with the exact order of the desired variables and the punctuation and blanks between them for every particular type of publication cited. Out of that “maximum case” the underlying mechanism would ignore everything not needed in the particular case of a certain publication.

In the case of publication type “book” it could be something like:

\setpublicationstyleforlist [type:book] [{invertedauthor1}{/}{invertedauthor2}{/}{invertedauthor3}{et al.}{ (}{year}{): }{title}{. }{address}{: }{publisher}{.}]

... that not good enough: fields can be absent, there is no way to distinguish authors from titles and so ...

the new mechanism we're making tries to cover a lot of aspects and it's not that trivial to also keep the interface simple then

anyway, what we're talking of (currently) is:

- datasets, where data comes from bib files, lua tables xml files or whatever gets interfaced

- optional typing, which means that one can tell what fields represents what kind of data

- fallback sets i.e a sequence that will be checked when a field is requested

- virtual fields (think of numbers and author year combinations)

- control via settings (the et-al thing as well as fences and punctuation)

- rendering driven by setups so that users have full control (if they want) over what comes out

- a bunch of helper macros (checking, spacing etc)

- a collection of methods that can be applied to fields when they are called up

- calling up citations by tag but also by a query

- control over lists

- automatic generation of registers

- passing along extra data entered in the source

- and more

we don't know how many users will define renderings themselves but in principle it should not be too hard to copy existing setups and mess with them

there is quite some tracing available because it can go wrong in many places (depending on the quality of the data)

attached are two simple examples of how users can define things

Hans

----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Alan BRASLAU

27 Jan 27 Jan

3:59 a.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:13:09 +0100 Jörg Weger wrote:

...

* normal reference in brackets: author <space> year, no comma: e.g. “(Einstein 1904)”

\cite[authoryears][Einstein1904]

...

* author is named in the text, only year in brackets: e.g. “As it has been proven by Einstein (1904) …”

\cite[authoryear][Einstein1904]

...

* if page numbers are to be given in the citation: colon after year, followed directly (without space) by page number(s)/range: e.g. “(Einstein 1904:351)” or “(Einstein 1904:251 f.)” or “(Einstein 1904:251 ff.)” or “(Einstein 1904:226–231)”.

This feature is currently *broken* (and we need to fix it). Alan

Jörg Weger

5:57 p.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

Now I got it and I got it working :) Thanks a lot! By the way, is there a difference between \cite and \citation? On 27.01.2015 04:59, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

...

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:13:09 +0100 Jörg Weger wrote:

...
* normal reference in brackets: author <space> year, no comma: e.g. “(Einstein 1904)”

\cite[authoryears][Einstein1904]

...
* author is named in the text, only year in brackets: e.g. “As it has been proven by Einstein (1904) …”

\cite[authoryear][Einstein1904]

...
* if page numbers are to be given in the citation: colon after year, followed directly (without space) by page number(s)/range: e.g. “(Einstein 1904:351)” or “(Einstein 1904:251 f.)” or “(Einstein 1904:251 ff.)” or “(Einstein 1904:226–231)”.

This feature is currently *broken* (and we need to fix it).

Alan

Hans Hagen

26 Jan 26 Jan

10:56 a.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

On 1/25/2015 8:10 PM, Jörg Weger wrote:

...

Thank You Alan and Hans for your efforts regarding my questions so far.

After I had played a while with the examples Hans had attached, I have had a little success bei renaming copies of ~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/publ-imp-apa.lua and ~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/publ-imp-apa.mkiv to publ-imp-daf.lua and publ-imp-daf.mkiv (DaF stands for “Deutsch als Fremdsprache” = “German as a foreign language”, my subject of study) and putting those renamed copies into the same folder as a test file that should contain only in-text references and a publications list.

I have started to set up a “real world” BibTeXt example from the examples in the style sheet we were given by the university. So far I have different examples for “book” and “incollection”.

Inside the two new configuration files I replaced every occurrence of “apa” by “daf”. Then I edited publ-imp-daf.mkiv by trial and error. I managed to change punctuation/delimiters in the publications list, but did not fully succeed with the in-text reference. I understand now that it is not trivial to set up a style as there are many decisions to be taken. The problem I have regarding the publications list is that the order I need differs in some ways from apa which means I have to split some of the macros defined for apa. E.g. for “book” my order is

you can just overload the apa definitions (you can do that in a an environment for instance) ... save a bit of time and probably easier to update Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Jörg Weger

19 Jan 19 Jan

5:39 p.m.

Hello again, After looking once more for all files within ConTeXt with “apa” in their name, I found out that I can start to write my own citation style by changing things in the file “~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex”. It’s not as convenient as I had described in my previous post, but not to far from that and I think I will manage to get everything working. Anyway it is much easier for me than learning to edit XML in CSL files which I looked at today. What I still do not understand: How can I make the edited file work as an alternative style to APA in \setuppublications in my environment? I tried to rename the file to “bibl-abc.tex“ and change \setuppublications in my ConTeXt environment to \setuppublications[alternative=abc] but that did not work. Do I have to rename something else? And supposed I have succeeded to create my own style, will those selfmade style files survive an update? And what are that localized files for like “bibl-apa-de.tex”, “bibl-apa-fr.tex” etc.? They seem to be older than “bibl-apa.tex”. \Greetings Jörg

Hans Hagen

6:45 p.m.

New subject: Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

On 1/19/2015 6:39 PM, Jörg Weger wrote:

...

Hello again,

After looking once more for all files within ConTeXt with “apa” in their name, I found out that I can start to write my own citation style by changing things in the file “~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex”. It’s not as convenient as I had described in my previous post, but not to far from that and I think I will manage to get everything working. Anyway it is much easier for me than learning to edit XML in CSL files which I looked at today.

What I still do not understand: How can I make the edited file work as an alternative style to APA in \setuppublications in my environment? I tried to rename the file to “bibl-abc.tex“ and change \setuppublications in my ConTeXt environment to \setuppublications[alternative=abc] but that did not work. Do I have to rename something else? And supposed I have succeeded to create my own style, will those selfmade style files survive an update?

And what are that localized files for like “bibl-apa-de.tex”, “bibl-apa-fr.tex” etc.? They seem to be older than “bibl-apa.tex”.

don't spend too much time on the old mechanism ... better play with the mkiv way and provide feedback on that

...

\Greetings

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