Our project quite happily uses google docs to collaborately edit documents and store a bunch of them. We also quite happily use ConTeXt to produce internal publications in pdf format.
Unfortunately, when dealing with humanities journals, the requirement is "all Word, all the time."
Therefore, given that we have a trival output of a BibTeX citations DB in Mendeley (that also provides for group collaboration on citations), a fair amount of ConTeXt expertise and awareness in the group, and a document in google docs, what is a simple and reliable workflow to somehow use BibTeX citations to do in-line citations in arbitrary journal format X (::muttermuttermutter::) and optimally, basic header and footnote typesetting?
Best Answer
bibtex
is not your main problem in this work flow, but rathercontext
. Once your document is at final stage you can remove thebibtex
part of the compilation by including the output.bbl
file in your source code. For example, using the setup of References in ConTeXtorig-file.tex
:with
xampl.bib
compiles producing
orig-file.bbl
Pasting this into your original file and commenting out the reference to the external database, we get
new-file.tex
which compiles withoutbibtex
:Now you need a
context
tortf/word
converter - but the FAQ suggests this does not exist. If you use LaTeX then there are converter programs.