Here is another slightly tricky one JP.
At a certain point the author has decided to introduce a 'house style'
in reference to a number of Vatican documents, e.g. in-text citation is
(GS §22), whereas the BibTeX full reference at chapter and final level
would probably want Second Vatican Council as the author if I do it in
the usual APA style. Of course, I can get around it easily enough with:
@book{vat21965gs,
author = {GS},
title = {Gaudium et Spes},
subtitle = {Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World},
year = {1965},
publisher = {Libreria Editrice Vaticana},
}
But preferably the author field there would be author = {{Second
Vatican Council}},
I was wondering if there was a way to get ConTeXt to ignore the author.
I thought I could possibly leave it blank:
\cite[alternative=,
left={(},
right={)},
righttext={GS §22}]
[main::vat21965gs]
But whatever I have in the author field in the .bib file (be it GS or
Second Vatican Council) is reproduced anyway. Indeed if I remove the
entire key reference (alternative = author) it still defaults to author.
And I still need the full bibliographic record to appear at chapter
level and at the end.
I night just have to stick with GS as the author.
Any thoughts?
Julian
On 17/8/26 20:26, Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context wrote:
Julian,
Thanks — that is very useful, and I think we are now essentially there.
Since |righttext| is appended literally after the author, could you
try including the comma there as well?
(\cite
[alternative=author,
righttext={{, ca. 350 BCE/2009}}]
[main::aristotle2009ethics])
If it behaves as your previous test suggests, this should give:
(Aristotle, ca. 350 BCE/2009)
That would be a pleasantly simple solution: |alternative=author|
supplies the author, while |righttext| supplies the historical/edition
dating information without requiring any change to the bibliography
data or the APA rendering itself.
It would also be worth checking afterwards whether the outer
parentheses can be handled by the citation machinery itself, but I
would first confirm this minimal form.
JP
* Aristotle might add one complication: if character is formed by
repeated action, those repeated actions cannot themselves be
normatively neutral. A just /hexis/ (ἕξις) requires the practice of
just actions, which in turn requires some prior account of what counts
as just. This is one reason why the /Nicomachean Ethics/ leads so
naturally into the /Politics/: the formation of character depends on
laws, education, and ultimately on the ordering of the political
community.
Le 17/08/2026 à 11:16, jbf a écrit :
Before retiring for the night I have quickly checked out your
suggestion (and don't worry about the change of date to 2009, since
this is the real date I need to deal with):
[alternative=author,
righttext={{ca. 350 BCE/2009}}]
[main::aristotle2009ethics]
produces:
Aristotle ca. 350 BCE/2009
Nearly there, so to get parentheses around it and produce (Aristotle,
ca. 350 BCE/2009), this is how I treated the entire paragraph where
the citation appears:
Aristotle understood that character is formed through repeated
action. We become just or unjust, courageous or cowardly, temperate
or self-indulgent through what we repeatedly choose and practise (\cite
[alternative=author,
righttext={{ca. 350 BCE/2009}}]
[main::aristotle2009ethics]). Actions become habits, habits shape
character, and character influences what becomes easier or harder to
perceive and choose. Human beings remain capable of change, but
freedom gradually acquires a history.
Julian
On 17/8/26 17:35, Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context wrote:
No problem at all, Julian — take your time. Translation work has a
way of absorbing the whole day!
I’ll be interested to hear what you get from the test when you have
a chance to try it.
Have a good evening.
JP
Le 17/08/2026 à 09:07, jbf a écrit :
Caught up in other work right now JP (translation), and already
evening here, so it might be tomorrow before I can get back to
this. I'll let you know how it goes.
Julian
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