On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:22:54 +0100 "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> maybeyear is one of the areas that need fixing. The simple on/off > mechanism is not sufficient, because the behavior needs to be more > complex: > > 1. If the citation style does not use the year as a key, do not > append letters. > > 2. If the citation style uses year as key and only one > publication/year of an author is quoted and listed (even if there are > several in the bib file) do not append letter. > > 3. Append letter if citation style uses year AND more than one > publication/year for given author is quoted and listed. > > I assume that in order for this to work, Hans will have to rewrite > the code which produces the .bbl file from the bib. Right now, > AFAICS, the .bbl contains the entire .bib database. It should only > contain the entries which are cited. > > Alan, does that make sense to you? Yes Perhaps the .bbl could contain the entire .bib database with the filtering taking place then in lua/ConTeXt. How this is handled internally is a programming, not a user issue. I do agree with your assessment of when to and when not to append a letter to the year as listed. Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
