Re: jurabib/bibtex

Dear Seb,

I'm engaged in a similar struggle, so maybe I can help:

1.  I've found that pages=format is not really a great option for some
humanities disciplines, simply because there are often other kinds of
numberings to which we must refer (e.g. "column", "folio"). 
Therefore, I've abandoned it altogether, and defined a couple of quick
and easy commands:

     \newcommand{\p}[1]{p.~{#1}}
     \newcommand{\pp}[1]{pp.~{#1}}

This works perfectly (for me) in the optional argument(s) of \cite and
\footcite.  If you want to turn the formatting off, or to change it,
just redefine.  This works within bibtex entry fields too:

     pages = {\pp{999--1000}}

2.  As for no "p." with article pages, I've had a similar request made
by my faculty's style guide.  You simply need a new command:
     
     \newcommand{\artp}[1]{#1}% <== where #1 = page(s)
     \newcommand{\artpp}[1]{#1}

This may seem like a lot of extra effort, but it's very easy, and has
the advantage of putting everything in your control for alteration,
should you have to submit your work to a publisher with a different
format.

Using pages=always should give you the full page range and the
specific cited page for the first full reference, and for subsequent
full references.  Shorter references (as with citefull=chapter, which
I use), will just have the specifically cited page.  (I do wish that
for these full citations we could get "pp. 500-17, at p. 513".)

3.  Grouping the bibliography into different sections is eminently
possible.  In your preamble:

     \usepackage{bibtopic}

(Download this from
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contr
ib/bibtopic/?action=/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/)

You must save all the different categories as their own bib files. 
This is no problem if you want to re-combine them later (just remember
that having two identical entries in the same bibliography section
will cause errors; this won't happen if you're rigid about the
categories).

At the end of the root document, use something like the example below
(this is from my Ph.D.).  You can see how the bibliography is set as
its own (unnumbered) chapter, with \chapter*{Biblio name}, followed by
the style you want (jox).  Each section references its own bib
file(s), and is given a title that you specify (with \secition*{}).  I
use four different sections:  Manuscripts, Printed Primary Sources,
Secondary Works, and Unpublished Theses.  You could easily adapt this
to differentiate books from articles, etc.


%% Bibliography

\chapter*{Works Cited}
\bibliographystyle{jox}
%%
\begin{btSect}{./bibdesk/benedictinereform/ben-reform-mss,%
./bibdesk/officeforms/officeforms-mss}
\section*{Manuscripts}
\btPrintCited
\end{btSect}
%%
\begin{btSect}{bibdesk/phd-primary}
\section*{Printed Primary Sources}
\btPrintCited
\end{btSect}
%%
\begin{btSect}{./bibdesk/phd-secondary}
\section*{Secondary Works}
\btPrintCited
\end{btSect}
%%
\begin{btSect}{./bibdesk/benedictinereform/ben-reform-ths,%
./bibdesk/officeforms/officeforms-ths}
\section*{Unpublished Theses}
\btPrintCited
\end{btSect}

\end{document}


Good luck with it all!

Jesse Billett




 
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