On 8-2-2010 14:49, Philipp Gesang wrote:
Hello Wolfgang!
On 2010-02-08<12:25:58>, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
ConTeXt has many features but sometimes there is something missing, what feature or package do you miss which is already available in another TeX system or unavailable in any TeX system? Most definately: all the details of Philipp Lehman's BibLaTeX package which is one of the greatest things LaTeX has to offer: multi-part bibliographies, lots of different citation rules, manifold idem/ibidem/ op. cit.&c handling, authoring new styles -- all solved in one single stroke and neatly documented.
That'd be "nice to have" …
fyi: the whole bin stuff will be redone in mkiv. some of it is already done. 1 - mkii compatible support (built in, no module) 2 - loading of bib databases in memory and converte them in an xml tree 3 - access to entries in arbitrary ways using path expressions 4 - rewrite of rendering variants using the built in xml handler 1 is more or less done, 2 also, 3 is possible but we might want more and for 4 taco and i will cook up an interface Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------