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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: | 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 | + | 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. |
− | 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. | Note the ugly ‘?.’ conjunction at the end of the title. |
Revision as of 04:41, 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, test.bib:
@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, test.tex:
% bibtex hack starts here \def\gobblestop#1#2{#1} \def\killstop{% \aftergroup\gobblestop } % bibtex hack stops here \setupbibtex[database={test},sort=author] \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl,refcommand=authoryear] \starttext \cite[art1] \placepublications[criterium=text] \stoptext
Notes:
- I successfully tested this example with ConTeXt MkIV version 2011.10.01
- Define the \killstop command before \starttext. The environment file is a good place for it, if you are using one.
- Note the modifications necessary to the BibTeX entry itself: an extra pair of braces, and insertion of \killstop at the end.