Re: [NTG-context] consecutive full stops in "num" bib style after "et al"

2019-07-29 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
On 2019-07-29 15:18, Alan Braslau  wrote:

>>   \setupbibtex[database=tmp]
>>   \setuppublications[alternative=num]
>
> You are using the old mkii bibtex module.

You're right.  I'm too afraid of changing to the new way, at least for
the book that I've just submitted for copyediting. For the next book,
I'll try some experiments with the new way.

-Sanjoy
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Re: [NTG-context] consecutive full stops in "num" bib style after "et al"

2019-07-29 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:37:15 -0400
Sanjoy Mahajan  wrote:

> Here's a minimal example:
> 
>   \setupbibtex[database=tmp]
>   \setuppublications[alternative=num]

You are using the old mkii bibtex module.

Alan
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[NTG-context] consecutive full stops in "num" bib style after "et al"

2019-07-29 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
In the "num" bibliography style, bibliography entries that get "et
al."ed (the author list is too long and "et al." is inserted) end up
with two full stops in a row.  Here's a minimal example:

  \setupbibtex[database=tmp]
  \setuppublications[alternative=num]

  \setuppublicationlist[artauthoretallimit=3, authoretaldisplay=3,
editoretaldisplay=3, artauthoretaldisplay=3,
  %  authoretaltext={ et al},
  %  artauthoretaltext={ et al},
  ]

  \starttext

  Test \cite[Larkin:1980].

  \blank[big]

  \placepublications[criterium=text]

  \stoptext

(The tmp.bib file is attached.)  The bibliography entry is:

  [1] Jill Larkin, John McDermott and Dorothea P. Simon et al.. Expert and
  novice performance in solving physics problems. Science,
  208(4450):1335--1342, 1980.

The doubled full stop can be fixed by commenting in the two lines

  %  authoretaltext={ et al},
  %  artauthoretaltext={ et al},

Should these commented-in settings be the default for the "num" style
(because it'll always put one more full stop between the author list and
the title)?

Another workaround is never to use et al.  But that idea failed when I
had to cite the Nobel-Prize-winning gravity-wave paper ("Observation of
Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger").  It has, I think,
1000 authors!

-- 
-Sanjoy


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Six reasoning tools to make hard problems easy.

@Article{Larkin:1980,
  title={Expert and novice performance in solving physics problems},
  author={Larkin, Jill and McDermott, John and Simon, Dorothea P. and Simon, Herbert A.},
  journal={Science},
  volume=208,
  number=4450,
  pages={1335--1342},
  year=1980,
}
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