After struggling with all the programming prescribed by Context to
set up a bibliography, and examining a few dozen *.bib, *.bst and
a *bbl file, I decided to do things the simple way. My concept
is, that instead of creating a *bib file I could with the same
amount of effort create a plain text file to be imported directly into
my Context file. I studied the bibliography of "The Chicago
Manual of Style" to determine the order, punctuation and format. My
file is called "book.foo." Now if I choose to use some of these entries
in another book a simple cut and paste between two editor sessions
will do. For ease in editing I put each item in each entry on a
separate line. TeX/Context will take care of puttng them
together in a paragraph.
Of course this lacks the generality of the bibtex approach. But I
don't need all that flexibilty.
None of the current biblio styles specified for Context incorporate the
ISBN field. So I just put it at the end of each entry preceded by
a \crlf.
Without further ado here is the book.foo file:
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\chapter{References}
%authors. title. city: publisher, year\crlf
%isbn
Bah, Tavmjong.
{\it Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program}.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall,
2011 \crlf
ISBN 978-0-13-276414-8
Culleton, John R. Jr.
{\it Create Book Covers with Scribus} (pdf e-book).
Eldersburg, Maryland:
Wexford Press,
2012 \crlf
ISBN 978-1-60019-002-5
Drew, Ned and Paul Sternberger.
{\it By its Cover: Modern American Book Design}.
New York:
Princeton Architectural Press,
2005\crlf
ISBN 978-1-56898-497-1
Kirsanov, Dimitry.
{\it The Book of Inkscape\trademark : The Definitive Guide to the
Free Graphics Editor}.
San Francisco:
No Starch Press,
2009\crlf
ISBN 978-159327-181-7
Powers, Alan.
{\it Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design}.
London:
Mitchell Beazley,
2006\crlf
ISBN 978-1-84533-242-6
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If by chance an entry ends up split between two pages a simple
\page[yes] command can be inserted. I considered instead putting a
\goodbreak between entries but figured it wasn't worth the
bother. Since I call this fragment a \chapter it is listed in the
TOC. I had to put \whitespace[medium] right after the
\startbackmatter command just as I did after \startbodymatter.
for my purposes for this task simple is better and much faster.
--
John Culleton
Wexford Press
Free list of books for self-publishers:
http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus"
available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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