On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Csikos Bela wrote: > Mojca Miklavec írta: >>Hi, >> >>When citing articles with five authors I prefer to list all of them, >>but in some articles with one hundred authors I would prefer just "J. >>Someone et al." since listing five more co-authors doesn't add >>anything substantial to the information. >> >>Is there any trick that would allow liming the number of listed >>authors on per-article basis? Simply specifying >> author = "Just Someone et al.", > > It's not clear what you want exactly. That is, how many rules do you want > regarding > number of authors? > > I don't know how ConTeXt handes author numbers. But in normal bibtex this is > generally > implemented as max authors and min authors (naturally it depends on the bst > file you use). > If the total number of authors is less than or equal to max authors, all > author names are listed. > If total number of authors is more than max authors, min authors are listed > followed by et al. > By adjusting the bst file you can change every single details. > > An example: if you set max number to 7 and min number to 3, then in case of 7 > or less > authors all are listed, in case of 8 or more the first 3 are listed followed > by et al. > > Would these two rules fit your requirements? Or do you want a third rule (in > additon to the > above rules) for very high number of authors, when only the very first author > is listed?
Oh, interesting. I wasn't aware of that rule. I thought that in case of "more than n" authors, the first n would be printed. I was thinking of a rule "if I specify something special on this particular entry, then print one author et al." (without me having to bother to actually try to include all the hundred names if I know in advance that none of them would be printed anyway), but a rule like "if more than N, then print just one" would most probably work for me. How does one set that lower number? > In this case you have to edit the bst file as well. What makes it harder > ConTeXt has special bst files and you have to edit those bst files. > > If you have only a few article like this, the easiest solution might be to > edit the bib file, and change the author field to what you want in the output. > > This is a real shortcoming of ConTeXt bibliography generating mechanism. To > customize > it you have to be able to edit bst files and be very familiar with ConTeXt > bibliography > generating module, and TeX programming might be required too. No, configuration of bibliographies in ConTeXt does not (and should not) require knowledge of bst files. I always managed to get around with some relatively straightforward settings and commands. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
