[NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:47, Kip Warner wrote:
>
> If there is a url field in the bibliography
> database present for a given entry, how would one have the title
> interactive to the url?

I didn't try to answer your question directly, but the following
example comes from one of my documents (please don't ask me how I got
it working since I don't remember, but it was probably with Taco's
intervention and by cloning definitions of \insertbiburl). I turns a
number into well-defined URL and displays just the number with a link
to that URL.

\newbibfield[cobissid]

\unprotect
\def\bibinsertcobissid#1#2#3%
  {{\bibdoifelse{\@@pb at cobissid}%
      {\edef\ascii{\@EA\detokenize\@EA{\@@pb at cobissid}}%
       #1\expanded{\gotoCOBISS{\@@pb at thekey}{\ascii}}#2}{#3}}}
\protect

% http://www.cobiss.si/scripts/cobiss?command=DISPLAY&base=cobib&rid=1063780&lani=EN
% http://www.cobiss.si/scripts/cobiss?command=SEARCH&base=COBIB&select=BN=0521867444&lani=en
\def\gotoCOBISS#1#2%
  {\ifbibinteractionelse
    {\useURL[bibfoo#1][http://www.cobiss.si/scripts/cobiss?command=DISPLAY&base=cobib&rid=#2]%
     \goto{#2}[url(bibfoo#1)]}%
    {#2}}

and then my book layout uses
    \insertcobissid{ {\sc cobiss.si-id}: \bgroup}{\egroup.}{}%

followed by an example:

\startpublication
  [k=book:willock2009,
   t=book,
   a=Willock,
   y=2009,
   s=,
   u=]
  \title{Molecular symmetry}
  \author[]{David J}[D.~J.]{}{Willock}
  \pubyear{2009}
  \pubname{J. Wiley \& Sons}
  \city{Chichester}
  \isbn{978-0-470-85348-1}
  \cobissid{30303749}
\stoppublication

Maybe that (with explanation) deserves an entry on the wiki, but you
can have a nice exercise. If this doesn't help you, I'll take a look
tomorrow or day after tomorrow.

Mojca