Re: Short forms and abbreviations in bibliography

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

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Just continuing to talk my way through the inner workings of the ConTeXt
Publication modules. It looks like three "long" citation forms are defined
in publ-imp-cite.mkvi:

\startsetups btx:cite:listelement
    \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:concat}
    \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:lefttext}
    \ifx\currentbtxfirst\empty
        \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:\s!empty}
    \else
       \texdefinition {\s!btx:\s!cite:inject} {
           \btxcitereference
           \currentbtxfirst
       }
    \fi
    \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:righttext}
\stopsetups

\startsetups \s!btx:\s!cite:entry
    \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:concat}
    \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:lefttext}
    \btxhandleciteentry
    \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:righttext}
\stopsetups

\startsetups \s!btx:\s!cite:footnote
    \startfootnote
        \fastsetup{btx:cite:entry}
    \stopfootnote
\stopsetups

Intuitively, I would expect btx:cite:listelement [why not
\s!btx:\s!cite:listelement?] to handle rendering a bibliographic entry for
the bibliography proper (i.e., the list typically placed at the end of a
document), while \s!btx:\s!cite:entry would handle in-text citations. The
third setup, \s!btx:\s!cite:footnote, simply renders the "entry"-style
citation in a footnote.

But as far as I can tell, the "listelement" setup is never used outside of
publ-imp-cite.mkvi. Only the "entry" setup appears to be used. Meanwhile,
the \btxcitereference and  \btxhandleciteentry macros (invoked in these
setups) appear to be defined in publ-ini.mkiv:

\unexpanded\def\btx_cite_reference_inject
  {\ifconditional\c_btx_cite_reference_injected
   \else
     \dontleavehmode
     \iftrialtypesetting \else
       \ifx\currentbtxbacklink\empty
         % can be made empty when combining author / year
       \else\ifnum\currentbtxbacklink>\zerocount
         \btx_cite_reference_inject_indeed
         \settrue\c_btx_cite_reference_injected
       \fi\fi
     \fi
  \fi}

...

\let\btxcitereference\btx_cite_reference_inject

...

\unexpanded\def\btxhandleciteentry
  {\dontleavehmode
   \begingroup
   \def\currentbtxcitealternative{entry}%
   \setbtxparameterset\s!cite\currentbtxcitealternative % needs checking
   \btxcitereference
   \btx_entry_inject
   \endgroup}

My next step will be to figure out what these are doing, but I'm still not
sure if the module accommodates rendering in-text "entry" citations
differently than citations in the list.

Joey

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 8:55 AM Joey McCollum <jmccollum20140511@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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