Difference between revisions of "Question marks in bibliography entries"
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+ | A solution was suggested [http://www.tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2009-November/013714.html on the texhax mailing list]; only one of the suggested hacks appears to work with ConTeXt. It requires the modification of the bibliography entries, and the definition of a new command. Below is a working example. | ||
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+ | The BibTeX file: | ||
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+ | <texcode> | ||
+ | @article{art1, | ||
+ | title = {{Is this a question?\killstop}}, | ||
+ | author = {Author, A.}, | ||
+ | pages = {1--2}, | ||
+ | journal = {Journal of Something}, | ||
+ | volume = {1}, | ||
+ | number = {2}, | ||
+ | year = {2000} | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | </texcode> | ||
+ | |||
+ | The document itself: | ||
+ | |||
+ | <texcode> | ||
+ | \def\gobblestop#1#2{#1} | ||
+ | \def\killstop{% | ||
+ | \aftergroup\gobblestop | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | |||
+ | \setupbibtex[database={test},sort=author] | ||
+ | \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl,refcommand=authoryear] | ||
+ | \starttext | ||
+ | \cite[art1] | ||
+ | \placepublications[criterium=text] | ||
+ | \stoptext | ||
+ | </texcode> |
Revision as of 04:36, 5 February 2012
Some publications have a title which ends in a question mark (a.k.a. interrogation mark or interrogation point). This becomes a problem when typesetting a bibliography, since a full stop is added after the title, resulting in something like:
Livermore, R., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Meredith, M. and Eagles, G. (2007). Drake Passage and Cenozoic climate: An open and shut case?. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 8(1), Q01005.
Note the ugly ‘?.’ conjunction at the end of the title.
A solution was suggested on the texhax mailing list; only one of the suggested hacks appears to work with ConTeXt. It requires the modification of the bibliography entries, and the definition of a new command. Below is a working example.
The BibTeX file:
@article{art1, title = {{Is this a question?\killstop}}, author = {Author, A.}, pages = {1--2}, journal = {Journal of Something}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, year = {2000} }
The document itself:
\def\gobblestop#1#2{#1} \def\killstop{% \aftergroup\gobblestop } \setupbibtex[database={test},sort=author] \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl,refcommand=authoryear] \starttext \cite[art1] \placepublications[criterium=text] \stoptext