Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I wasn't precise enough: for German bibliographies, there's a convention to have works with an author sorted by the author's name and edited books by the first word of the title, like so: At first I thought: that is really weird. But then I realised that this is

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-05 Thread John R. Culleton
On Monday 05 February 2007 04:44, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I wasn't precise enough: for German bibliographies, there's a convention to have works with an author sorted by the author's name and edited books by the first word of the title, like so: At first I thought:

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi Taco, Is it possible to sort by the bibliography list by authors? The manual says that sorttype=cite|bib? No, because there is no reasonable way to do alphabetic sorting in TeX. Also, why does bibl-ams not define 'conference'? This can have the exact same

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-04 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Is it possible to sort by the bibliography list by authors? The manual says that sorttype=cite|bib? No, because there is no reasonable way to do alphabetic sorting in TeX. Perhaps I will reveal my own fundamental confusion about bibtex but: What about letting bibtex (the C program) do the

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Is it possible to sort by the bibliography list by authors? The manual says that sorttype=cite|bib? No, because there is no reasonable way to do alphabetic sorting in TeX. Perhaps I will reveal my own fundamental confusion about bibtex but: What about letting

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-04 Thread John R. Culleton
On Sunday 04 February 2007 06:51, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Is it possible to sort by the bibliography list by authors? The manual says that sorttype=cite|bib? No, because there is no reasonable way to do alphabetic sorting in TeX. Perhaps I will reveal my own fundamental confusion about

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Is it possible to sort by the bibliography list by authors? The manual says that sorttype=cite|bib? No, because there is no reasonable way to do alphabetic sorting in TeX. Perhaps I will reveal my own fundamental confusion

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 4, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Johan Sandblom wrote: But how does one make an edited book be sorted by editors in the same list? Johan That's done automatically; author and editor appear to be treated the same way for this sort option. I am wondering if there is a way to have edited

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Feb 4, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Johan Sandblom wrote: But how does one make an edited book be sorted by editors in the same list? Johan That's done automatically; author and editor appear to be treated the same way for this sort option. I am wondering if there

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-04 Thread Johan Sandblom
But how does one make an edited book be sorted by editors in the same list? Johan 2007/2/4, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Is it possible to sort by the bibliography list by authors? The manual says that

Re: [NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 4, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: What does \setupbibtex[sort=title] do ? Taco Hi Taco, I wasn't precise enough: for German bibliographies, there's a convention to have works with an author sorted by the author's name and edited books by the first word of the title, like

[NTG-context] Sort bibliography by authors

2007-02-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Taco, Is it possible to sort by the bibliography list by authors? The manual says that sorttype=cite|bib? Also, why does bibl-ams not define 'conference'? This can have the exact same definition as 'inproceedings'. Aditya ___ ntg-context mailing