Perhaps, by coincidence the example that I sent had the bbl file sorted. But the full file does not have the references sorted. Does this mean I have to first get the bbl file sorted. If so, how do I do that? Why is Hans quiet if this is a bug? He usually always says something about when he will fix it. Thanks. On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mathieu Boespflug wrote:

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No, indeed they were not sorted. But I saw that the the .bbl file was sorted. I then found that when you add sorttype=bbl as an argument to \setuppublications  (so, in your example use \setuppublications[refcommand=authoryear,sorttype=bbl]) and use \placepublications[] you will get the cited publications sorted alphabetically by author name.

I later saw that this solution was already given by Aditya Mahajan in ntg-context Digest, Vol 76, Issue 141   Date:   29 oktober 2010, Message 4, Subject:  sorttype for bibtex

On top of that, this is also documented in the bib module's manual.

Except that doesn't seem to work with the bibliography being placed using \placepublications in its own chapter in the backmatter. A similar issue was reported in 2006

http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg15442.html

but the solution given then involved writing \placepublications[criterium=all]. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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Thanks a ton for doing all of this, Hans. Thanks also to all other developers of Context. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 30-11-2010 11:02, Curiouslearn wrote:

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Perhaps, by coincidence the example that I sent had the bbl file sorted. But the full file does not have the references sorted. Does this mean I have to first get the bbl file sorted. If so, how do I do that?

Why is Hans quiet if this is a bug? He usually always says something about when he will fix it.

because i'm in the middle of something else and thomas will wrap up all problems with bibliographies so that i can look into it

Hans

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