This does not help. The error is still there. I guess because this doesn't add
the missing title. I cannot see in the FUNCTION a format.title. But somwhere
the bibmodule calls it from the proceedings entry.
Hans van der Meer
On 27 sep. 2011, at 12:50, Stefan Müller wrote:
> Maybe one could modify
>
> ####################################
> FUNCTION {inproceedings}
> { start.entry
> format.authors
> format.year
> format.arttitle
> crossref missing$
> { format.in.booktitle.or.series
> format.number.series
> "" "\city" address do.out
> format.pages
> }
> { format.incoll.inproc.crossref
> format.pages
> }
> if$
> "" "\pubname" publisher do.out
> "" "\organization" organization do.out
> stop.entry
> }
> ####################################
>
> to
>
> ####################################
> FUNCTION {inproceedings}
> { start.entry
> format.authors
> format.year
> format.arttitle
> format.in.booktitle.or.series
> format.number.series
> "" "\city" address do.out
> format.pages
> format.incoll.inproc.crossref
> "" "\pubname" publisher do.out
> "" "\organization" organization do.out
> stop.entry
> }
> ####################################
>
> in cont-*.bst? I don't know if this would cause any trouble...
>
> Stefan
>
> On 27.09.2011 12:35, Meer, H. van der wrote:
>> Yes, we are having the two faces same problem, I guess.
>> The fact is that \booktitle in the crossref'ed publication should be
>> processed as a \title item in the citatation crossreff'd. The error in my
>> case boils down to the fact that the title-entry is called without being
>> actually present.
>>
>> With the missing \title sofar I have nailed it down to macro \bibgetvart#1
>> from the following bbl entry:
>>
>> \startpublication[k=campbell:92,t=inproceedings,
>> a={{Campbell},{Wiener}},y=1992,
>> .. (no \title)
>> \stoppublication
>>
>> and log printing in the log from the modified macro:
>> \def\bibgetvart#1{\writestatus{ERROR}{Parameter<#1> on bibgetvart
>> \expandafter\string\csname pbd:#1\endcsname}\csname
>> pbd:#1\endcsname\plussix}%
>>
>> I find the log:
>> ERROR> Parameter<campbell:92> on bibgetvart \pbd:campbell:92
>> ERROR> Parameter<> on bibgetvart \pbd:
>> ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
>>
>> Thus the missing \title thus seems to result in extra call to a bibliography
>> entry that does not exist.
>> This is about as far as I am at the moment in analyzing the problem.
>>
>> Hans van der Meer
>>
>>
>> On 27 sep. 2011, at 12:09, Stefan Müller wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think this is related to my message from yesterday [1]. The "booktitle"
>>> key is ignored in "inproceedings" entries when "crossref" is present. See
>>> the following excerpt from cont-ab.bst:
>>>
>>> ####################################
>>> FUNCTION {inproceedings}
>>> { start.entry
>>> format.authors
>>> format.year
>>> format.arttitle
>>> crossref missing$
>>> { format.in.booktitle.or.series
>>> format.number.series
>>> "" "\city" address do.out
>>> format.pages
>>> }
>>> { format.incoll.inproc.crossref
>>> format.pages
>>> }
>>> if$
>>> "" "\pubname" publisher do.out
>>> "" "\organization" organization do.out
>>> stop.entry
>>> }
>>> ####################################
>>>
>>> So "title" is not set in the .bbl file. Good to know that I'm not the only
>>> one who's having trouble with that.
>>>
>>> I didn't know what I should expect when using "crossref", so I decided to
>>> not mind the missing booktitle. But it would still be nice (as seen in
>>> your example) if the actual citation style could decide whether or not to
>>> use "booktitle" aka "title".
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Stefan.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20110926.093110.8bc078f6.en.html
>>>
>>> On 27.09.2011 10:41, Meer, H. van der wrote:
>>>> Step by step I am able to dig deeper in the problem. The fact that it used
>>>> to work but now doesn't may well be connected with the fact that the
>>>> booktitle in those cases came from a "crossref =" item in the bib file.
>>>> Could it be the \crossref{} macro is not recognized any longer by the
>>>> ConTeXt bib module?
>>>>
>>>> In file bibl-tra.mkiv I encounter the following comment:
>>>> %D \macros{bib@crossref}
>>>> %D
>>>> %D \type{\crossref} is used in database files to point to another
>>>> %D entry. Because of this special situation, it has to be defined
>>>> %D separately. Since this command will not be seen until at
>>>> %D \type{\placepublications}, it may force extra runs. The same is
>>>> %D true for \type{\cite} commands inside of publications.
>>>>
>>>> In typesetting the citation in the footnote I am solely using cite, not
>>>> "\placepublications".
>>>> Does someone know why earlier the \crossref worked and now obviously has
>>>> been switched "out of the loop"?
>>>> Is there another way to force these crossref's to be carried out?
>>>>
>>>> Hans van der Meer
>>>>
>>>> On 27 sep. 2011, at 10:07, Meer, H. van der wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> An addtionial remark here: in the .bib file this is caused by a missing
>>>>> "book title".
>>>>>
>>>>> On 27 sep. 2011, at 10:03, Hans van der Meer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Recently I reported the following problem:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 25 sep. 2011, at 19:58, H. van der Meer wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I used the following macro for typsetting literature references in
>>>>>>> footnotes. It worked without problems until now, but then I didn't use
>>>>>>> the bib module for some time.
>>>>>>> It looks like a problem has crept in with the<inproceedings> type.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The error message:
>>>>>>> <to be read again>
>>>>>>> \pbd:
>>>>>>> \bibgetvart #1->\csname pbd:#1\endcsname
>>>>>>> \plussix
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Digging into the code I finally was able to nail the problem: the
>>>>>> offending citation being of type "t=inproceedings" was missing the
>>>>>> "title" item. Then I observe a call with #1 in bibgetvart empty, somehow
>>>>>> leading to a missing \endcsname error message.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Obviously earlier this wasn't a problem but now is. I guess because the
>>>>>> code changed since my previous work on the project.
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