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The aforementioned bibmod-doc.pdf file by Taco is the best documentation I've found, though it's a little out of date.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