Re: Short forms and abbreviations in bibliography

[Joey McCollum via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

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Henning's suggestion for abbreviations should work fine for that issue. I
could simply use the shorthand in the "series" and "journal" fields and set
up the appropriate \abbreviation calls in the document or environment.

As for the larger issue of bibliographies, I've started working on
publ-imp-sbl.lua and publ-imp-sbl.mkvi files. I knew I would need this for
my own project soon, and I felt it would be useful to myself and the
ConTeXt community if I could at least get a rudimentary version working.
I'm presently using the reference for examples from the *SBL Handbook of
Style*, 2nd edition, available at
https://github.com/dcpurton/biblatex-sbl/blob/master/test/biblatex-sbl-examples.ref.txt
.

Like you say, some parts are tricky. SBL uses "entry"-style citations by
default and doesn't seem to make use of other common alternatives (such as
"authoryear"). I can think of some existing alternatives that might get
used in specific cases (e.g., "author", "title"), but the
recommended shorthand has the form "shortauthor, shorttitle" (i.e., the
last name(s) of the author(s) only, followed by a comma and a shortened
form of the title as specified in the "shorttitle" field). I could make
this the sbl style's implementation of the "short" alternative, since the
LaTeX-style bracketed number references are foreign to SBL style anyway,
but if would be preferable just to introduce another alternative (something
like "authortitle"), then I could also try to do that.

For my immediate purposes, I won't need much more than the @book, @article,
@inbook, and @incollection entries, so my focus will be on getting those
right, but if anyone is interested in helping, I'll gladly take help. (But
it would probably be better to discuss the details in a separate e-mail
thread.)

Joey

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 4:12 AM Denis Maier via ntg-context <
ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: ntg-context <ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl> Im Auftrag von Henning
> > Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> > Gesendet: Samstag, 7. August 2021 22:40
> > An: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> > Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
> > Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Short forms and abbreviations in bibliography
> >
> >
> >
> > > Am 07.08.2021 um 21:53 schrieb Joey McCollum via ntg-context <ntg-
> > context@ntg.nl>:
> > >
> > > A separate list of abbreviations would then list "LSAWS" alongside
> "Linguistic
> > Studies in Ancient West Semitic" (and likewise for other journal/series
> > abbreviations).
> >
> > Regarding abbreviations have a look at
> > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definesynonyms
> >
> > It should be as easy as
> >
> > \abbreviation{LSAWS}{Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic}
> >
> > The full name of \quote{LSAWS} is \infull{LSAWS}.
> >
> > \placelistofabbreviations
> >
> >
> > I had a case where mostly abbreviations were used in the text but the
> full name
> > should appear in the index.
> > I can provide the setup (including Lua functions), if it might help you.
> >
> >
> > Can’t help with bibliographies, sorry.
>
> SBL is a tricky beast anyway. There were some discussions regarding
> implementing Chicago Manual of Style a couple of weeks ago. Develelopments
> on that front could also be useful for SBL. Don't know what came out of
> this though.
>
> Denis
>
> >
> > Hraban
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