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Question marks in bibliography entries (view source)
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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:
Livermore, R., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Meredith, M. and Eagles, G. (2007). DrakePassage 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 [http://www.tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2009-November/013714.html on the texhax mailing list]; only at least 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:
<texcode>
author = {Author, A.},
pages = {1--2},
journal = {Journal Journa[[Category:Fonts]]l of Something},
volume = {1},
number = {2},
</texcode>
The document itself, test.tex:
<texcode>
% bibtex hack starts here
\def\gobblestop#1#2{#1}
\def\killstop{%
\aftergroup\gobblestop
}
% bibtex hack stops here
\setupbibtex[database={test},sort=author]
\stoptext
</texcode>
Notes:
* I successfully tested this example with ConTeXt MkIV version 2011.10.01 (and I with MkIV 2019.07.04 beta).
* 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.
[[Category:Bibliography]]
