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

[Mohamed Bana]

This is very strange, I did a fresh checkout and everything *just* worked.

$ luatex --version
This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.30.3-2008112812, build unknown
...
$ context --version
MtxRun | main context file: 
/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex
MtxRun | current version: 2008.11.10 21:40



Hopefully this will be my last question; how do you compile individual 
chapters?



Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Mohamed Bana wrote:
>>>
>>>> sorry about the late reply, my minimals broke so i had to wait for a 
>>>> fix.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> t-bib-2008.12.01.zip
>>>>
>>>> $ luatex --version
>>>> This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.30.3-2008112812, build unknown
>>>> ....
>>>> $ context --version
>>>> MtxRun | main context file: 
>>>> /home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex 
>>>> MtxRun | current version: 2008.11.10 21:40
>>>>
>>>> http://filebin.ca/jqqekq/thesis.pdf or http://filebin.ca/jqqekq
>>>> http://filebin.ca/uhvgex/thesis.log or http://filebin.ca/uhvgex
>>>
>>> How are you compiling your files? Use "context thesis" and not 
>>> "texexec --lua thesis" (texexec will run bibtex which will overwrite 
>>> the existing bbl file, since you do not have any bib file, the bbl 
>>> file will be empty).
>>
>> Please note that my latest upload to modules.contextgarden runs
>> bibtex itself, in mkiv mode.
> 
> Ah, so that explains why Mohamed is not getting any citations. I was 
> using "latest" minimals from yesterday which still have t-bib from 
> 2008.10.27.
> 
> Taco, I also have a feature request for the bib module. Currently, 
> \setupcite is defined as
> 
> \def\dosetupcite[#1][#2]%
>   {\ifsecondargument
>      \def\dodosetupcite##1{\getparameters[\??pv##1][#2]}%
>      \processcommalist[#1]\dodosetupcite
>    \else % default case
>      \getparameters[\??pv\@@citedefault][#1]%
>    \fi }
> 
> This means that if I say
> 
> \setupcite[compress=no], this option is only passed to the default cite 
> command. This means that when interaction is enabled, (and the bibl-* 
> file says compress=yes), we get no styles for other cite styles. Does it 
> make sense to add a keyword "all" so that
> 
> \setupcite[all][...] is equal to
> \setupcite
>   [author,authoryear,authoryears,
>    year,serial,authornum,page,short,type,doi,url,num]
>   [...]
> 
> 
> Also, can we add style and color options to \cite. These can be either 
> passed to \setupinteraction in \docite or simply added using attributes 
> in the output of \cite.
> 
> Mohamed, to get the references to work comment
> 
> \setupbibtex          [database={IEEEfull,../collection}, sort=author]
> 
> in macros.tex and add
> 
> \dousepublications[thesis]
> 
> You can also use the official way: \usepublications[thesis], but I think 
> that this will cause warnings about redefined labels. Perhaps a better 
> way would be to change thesis.bbl to say thesis-ref.bbl and then use 
> \usepublications[thesis-ref].
> 
> Aditya
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