On Thu 12 Apr 2012, Kip Warner wrote: > Indeed, that is unfortunate. I am a little surprised because I would > think that the people who use ConTeXt tend to be more from the > sciences than the humanities, and so I wouldn't have expected APA > style as the default.
Most of the scientific journals I've seen use something fairly close to APA style -- although it's worth noting that ConTeXt's ‘APA’ diverges from the official standard at various points. > But surely someone must have found a way by now? I had a quick google before writing my previous mail, but only turned up http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20100208.170849.f874f701.hu.html , which implies that at least as of two years ago MLA bibliographies were still an unsolved problem. > Agreed. But when I change it to anything other than apa, even to > something allegedly supported, like num, I just see a [[error 2]] > typeset. Sounds like a bug, but never having used the other styles I don't really know. > > Hope this helps, > > Very. I'm glad to find someone who knows about the bibliography module, > since discussion and documentation seems to be scant. The aforementioned bibmod-doc.pdf file by Taco is the best documentation I've found, though it's a little out of date. But it's worth reading to get the idea of how ConTeXt interacts with BibTeX. As you say, discussion is a little scant too. I'm a user with a fairly limited understanding of the bibliography system, but I try to do what I can with bibliography questions if nobody else is answering. I'm afraid I don't have good answers to any of your questions, but as to URLs I can at least tell you what I do: > (3) I'd like any entry in the BibTeX database that has a url to have the > title clickable such that the browser is invoked to that url. Which > brings me to the next question. > > (4) Since my database is specified in the .bib format, what is the > preferred way of specifying a URL where there is one? I've seen a bunch > of different suggestions ranging from using the 'note' tag to wrapping > in a \def. Here's a sample entry from my PhD bibliography: % TODO is there a better way to cite a webpage? @manual{acton2011zplotit, author = {Acton, Gary}, title = {{ZPLOTIT} Software Users' Guide, version 2011-01}, year = {2011}, address = {\hyphenatedurl{http://paleomag.ucdavis.edu/software-Zplotit.html}}, note = {Retrieved 1 February 2011} } ... as the TODO shows, I don't consider this a perfect solution :-). With APA style, this produces an acceptable-looking entry, although semantically ‘address’ is probably the wrong key for the URL. \hyphenatedurl allows the url to be split nicely, but doesn't make it clickable; for that the tricks detailed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/url should work. I'd guess that something like address = {\useURL[dummy][http://www.example.com]\from[dummy]} should make a clickable bibliography URL. Pont ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
