[NTG-context] Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV

[Mohamed Bana]

Hi Aditya,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I did a fresh checkout and tried to compile, I uncommented out these 
lines from the beginning of macros.tex.

L3 \setupcolors[state=start]
...
L16 \setupcite  [interaction=start, compress=no,color=] %darkgreen]


L276-278 in env-thesis.tex

\setupinteraction[state=start,style=,color=]
\setupinteraction[focus=standard]


It's still the same;

Multi-agent systems can be classified as teams and games on the basis of 
the ob-
jective of the agents. In teams all agents have the same objective; in 
games, each
agent has its own objective. Historically, games were first studied in 
the seminal
work of and were later developed as a subfield of mathematical economics 
called
game theory (Aumann and Hart, , , ). Teams were first studied in
mathematical economics by and , and later in control systems by , , , , 
and others.

Version:

ConTeXt  ver: 2008.11.30 14:39 MKIV  fmt: 2008.12.1  int: english/english

And have you seen this error;

! LuaTeX error 
...nimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-syn.lua:71: attempt to 
call field 'process' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
	...nimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-syn.lua:71: in function 
'process'
	...nimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-syn.lua:125: in 
function 'process'
	<main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk.
\mkloadsortedlist ...xlua {joblists.process('#1')}
                                                   \getvalue {\s!reset 
#1}\eg...
\doplacelistofsynonyms ... ]\mkloadsortedlist {#1}
                                                   \endgroup 
\ifutilitydone \...
l.162 \placelistofabbreviations


Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi Mohamed,
> 
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Mohamed Bana wrote:
> 
>> Hi Aditya,
>>
>> Any news on bib module - t-bib.tex?
> 
> Sorry for not replying to your earlier message.
> 
>> If enable the colouring in cite commands in macros.tex I get;
>>
>> \setupcite  [interaction=start, compress=no,color=darkgreen]
> 
> The current bib module does not support changing the color of links. The 
> color=darkgreen was a local change that I did in my copy of t-bib. So, 
> color=darkgreen should just be silently ignored. However, compress=no 
> does affect the output of the \cite command but I do not understand why 
> it changes things like like Aumann and Hart (...) instead of (Aumann and 
> Hard, ... ).
> 
> Can you try to create a minimal example just using the bib module 
> specific setups?
> 
> Aditya
> 
> 
>> Teams and games
>> Multi-agent systems can be classified as teams and games on the basis of
>> the ob-
>> jective of the agents. In teams all agents have the same objective; in
>> games, each
>> agent has its own objective. Historically, games were first studied in
>> the seminal
>> work of and were later developed as a subfield of mathematical economics
>> called
>> game theory (Aumann and Hart, , , ). Teams were first 
>> studied in
>> mathematical economics by and , and later in control systems by , , , ,
>> and others
>>
>> Instead of;
>>
>> Teams and games
>> Multi-agent systems can be classified as teams and games on the basis of
>> the ob-
>> jective of the agents. In teams all agents have the same objective; in
>> games, each
>> agent has its own objective. Historically, games were first studied in
>> the seminal
>> work of von Neumann and Morgenstern () and were later developed as a
>> sub-
>> field of mathematical economics called game theory (Aumann and Hart,
>> , ,
>> ). Teams were first studied in mathematical economics by Radner
>> () and
>> Marschak and Radner (), and later in control systems by Witsenhausen
>> (a,
>> ), Ho et al. (), Ho (), and others.
>>
>>
>> Obviously I had to move t-bib.tex from the current directory to even get
>> the it compile.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mohamed
>>
>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>
>>> * Bibliography. For a large part, the bib module was very easy. In the
>>> end, there were a few glitches with the formatting of the bibliography
>>> (too title space between entries) which I had to manually correct. (Look
>>> for \help inside the bbl file).
>>>
>>>   The bbl file sorted authors with multiple entries incorrectly. If I 
>>> had
>>> authors with four publications in a year, say 2000, the came out as 
>>> 2000d,
>>> 2000c, 2000b, 2000a. I wanted 2000a, 2000b, 2000c, and 2000d, so in the
>>> end I just edited the bbl file by hand.
>>>
>>>   There was also problem with maybe year. If I had 2000a and 2000b in 
>>> the
>>> bib file, but only referred to 2000b in the thesis, the year came out as
>>> 2000b rather than 2000. For this also, I edited the bbl file by hand.
>>>
>>>
>>> Overall, ConTeXt made writing the thesis fairly easy. I mean the
>>> typesetting part of it. For those who are wondering, ConTeXt does not 
>>> help
>>> with the content of the thesis :-) I would like to thank Hans and 
>>> Taco for
>>> providing ConTeXt and everyone on the mailing list for answering my
>>> various questions.
>>>
>>>
>>> Aditya
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