On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 23:34:58 -0500 Rik Kabel <cont...@rik.users.panix.com> wrote:
> On 12/7/2018 22:51, Alan Braslau wrote: > > You can place references rendered as you need, not necessarily in > > one single bibliography list, but they must be rendered somewhere, > > otherwise numbering and cross-referencing is meaningless. In the > > case of footnote references, each footnote contains a rendering > > (not a citation) of a fragment of the list. > > > > You are thinking too much in a standard frame, and I'm not sure what > > you want to accomplish. > > > > One "other use" case that I make is a catalog of hundreds of > > mesophases. I "cite" them and their various properties throughout > > the text, an my "list rendering" has become an index. > > > > Alan > > > I would like simply to prepare a paper structured like the one found > at https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/Greenblatt%20Lecture.pdf. There is > no biblography; there are bibliographic references in footnotes. > There is no interaction. The only cross-references are the footnote > indices. > > If I could in addition pull in blocks of text from a secondary > database, that is lagniappe. Neither function requires rendering in a > separate list or lists. > > Certainly ConTeXt's bibliographic subsystem should be capable of > supporting such a basic format as that, but I can see no way to get > it to do so. > As I wrote, "rendering" to footnotes as elements of a "list" can be done, and your cross-reference *is* the footnote index. We have not written setups that do this already as I have never needed this format myself, although it is rather common in certain fields. "Pulling-in" blocks of text in general (without a basis) is not the aim. Again, the entire point is to associate fields to an entry, and the notion of a "list" is more general than a traditional bibliography list. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
