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 <pra...@wxs.nl> 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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