All right, I figured out where I needed to make this change for it to take
effect. The relevant script is publ-aut.lua. The code I needed to change
was for the "oneauthor" function definition, which itself is located in the
"btxauthor" function definition. My changes are detailed below:
```
local function oneauthor(i,last,justone)
local author = split[i]
if index then
ctx_btxstartauthor(i,1,0)
elseif last then
ctx_btxstartauthor(i,1,0)
ctx_btxsetconcat(0)
if combiner == "invertedfirst" then
if i == 1 then
ctx_btxsetauthorvariant("inverted")
else
ctx_btxsetauthorvariant("normal")
end
else
ctx_btxsetauthorvariant(combiner)
end
else
local state = author.state or 0
ctx_btxstartauthor(i,max,state)
ctx_btxsetconcat(concatstate(i,max))
if combiner == "invertedfirst" then
if i == 1 then
ctx_btxsetauthorvariant("inverted")
else
ctx_btxsetauthorvariant("normal")
end
else
ctx_btxsetauthorvariant(combiner)
end
end
local initials = author.initials
if initials and #initials > 0 then
ctx_btxsetinitials() --
(concat(the_initials(initials,symbol)," "))
end
local firstnames = author.firstnames
if firstnames and #firstnames > 0 then
ctx_btxsetfirstnames() -- (concat(firstnames," "))
end
local vons = author.vons
if vons and #vons > 0 then
ctx_btxsetvons() -- (concat(vons," "))
end
local surnames = author.surnames
if surnames and #surnames > 0 then
ctx_btxsetsurnames() -- (concat(surnames," "))
end
local juniors = author.juniors
if juniors and #juniors > 0 then
ctx_btxsetjuniors() -- (concat(juniors," "))
end
if not index and i == max then
if split.others then
ctx_btxsetoverflow(1)
else
local overflow = #split - max
if overflow > 0 then
ctx_btxsetoverflow(overflow)
end
end
end
if combiner == "invertedfirst" then
if i == 1 then
ctx_btxsetup("inverted")
else
ctx_btxsetup("normal")
end
else
ctx_btxsetup(combiner)
end
ctx_btxstopauthor()
end
```
I'll admit that the addition of entire if-else blocks around whether or not
the combiner is a specific value may not be the best practice in terms of
future maintenance (especially if similar index-dependent
authorconversions are needed in the future). Alternatively, the
"btxauthor" function could populate a "combiners" array of length "max"
with a specific authorconversion for each author in the split; for most
authorconversions, all entries in this array would be the same, but for
authorconversions like "invertedfirst", the first entry would be different
from the rest. Then, the "oneauthor" function could just reference
combiners[i] instead of combiner.
Joey
On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 10:48 PM Joey McCollum
Hi,
I mentioned this in an earlier e-mail but thought that now might be a good time to describe this issue in detail. I'd like to define a new authorconversion that renders the first author in a list differently than the remaining authors in the list. Specifically, I'd like to use the "inverted" authorconversion for the first author and the "normal" authorconversion for the rest.
In the newer bibl-bib.lua file, I can see what I might have to modify to accomplish this (I added the if combiner == "invertedfirst" block):
``` function authors.concat(author,combiner,what,settings) if type(combiner) == "string" then combiner = authors[combiner or "normal"] or authors.normal end local split = splitauthors(author) local setting = settings[what] local etallimit, etaldisplay, etaltext = 1000, 1000, "" if setting then etallimit = settings.etallimit or 1000 etaldisplay = settings.etaldisplay or etallimit etalltext = settings.etaltext or "" end local max = #split if max > etallimit and etaldisplay < max then max = etaldisplay end if combiner == "invertedfirst" then for i=1,max do if i == 1 then split[i] = authors.inverted(split[i],settings) else split[i] = authors.normal(split[i],settings) end
end else for i=1,max do split[i] = combiner(split[i],settings) end end local result = bibtexconcat(split,settings) if max < #split then return result else return result .. etaltext end end ```
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to do anything. It's not clear to me how bibl-bib.lua and bibl-bib.mkiv are being used by the other publication support modules, if they're being used at all (publ-ini.mkiv doesn't appear to register it, anyway). Is there another file I'd have to change to make "invertedfirst" a working authorconversion? Is there a similar block of code in publ-ini.lua where I should be implementing this change instead?
Thanks!
Joey