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

\startsetups btx:cite:listeleme= nt
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:concat}
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \fas= tsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:lefttext}
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \ifx\currentbtxfirst\empty=
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:\s!empty}
=C2= =A0 =C2=A0 \else
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\texdefinition {\s!btx:\s!ci= te:inject} {
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\btxcitereference<= br>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\currentbtxfirst
=C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0}
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \fi
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \fastsetup{\s!btx:= \s!cite:righttext}
\stopsetups

\startsetups \s!btx:\s!cite:entry<= br>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:concat}
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \fastse= tup{\s!btx:\s!cite:lefttext}
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \btxhandleciteentry
=C2=A0= =C2=A0 \fastsetup{\s!btx:\s!cite:righttext}
\stopsetups

\startse= tups \s!btx:\s!cite:footnote
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \startfootnote
=C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 \fastsetup{btx:cite:entry}
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 \stopfootnote=
\stopsetups

Intuitively, I would expect=C2=A0btx:ci= te:listelement [why not \s!btx:\s!cite:listelement?] to handle rendering a = bibliographic entry for the bibliography proper (i.e., the list typically p= laced at the end of a document), while=C2=A0\s!btx:\s!cite:entry would hand= le in-text citations. The third setup,=C2=A0\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 u= sed outside of publ-imp-cite.mkvi. Only the "entry" setup appears= to be used. Meanwhile, the=C2=A0\btxcitereference=C2=A0and=C2=A0 \btxhandleciteentry=C2=A0macros (invoked in these setups) appear to be defi= ned in publ-ini.mkiv:

\unexpanded\def\btx_cite_reference_inject
=C2=A0 = {\ifconditional\c_btx_cite_reference_injected
=C2=A0 =C2=A0\else
=C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\dontleavehmode
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\iftrialtypesetting= \else
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\ifx\currentbtxbacklink\empty
=C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0% can be made empty when combining author / = year
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\else\ifnum\currentbtxbacklink>\zeroc= ount
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\btx_cite_reference_inject_indeed=
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\settrue\c_btx_cite_reference_injecte= d
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\fi\fi
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0\fi
=C2=A0= \fi}

...

\let\btxcit= ereference\btx_cite_reference_inject

...

\u= nexpanded\def\btxhandleciteentry
=C2=A0 {\dontleavehmode
=C2=A0 =C2= =A0\begingroup
=C2=A0 =C2=A0\def\currentbtxcitealternative{entry}%
= =C2=A0 =C2=A0\setbtxparameterset\s!cite\currentbtxcitealternative % needs c= hecking
=C2=A0 =C2=A0\btxcitereference
=C2=A0 =C2=A0\btx_entry_inject=
=C2=A0 =C2=A0\endgroup}

My next st= ep will be to figure out what these are doing, but I'm still not sure i= f the module accommodates rendering in-text "entry" citations dif= ferently 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 simp= ly use the shorthand in the "series" and "journal" fiel= ds and set up the appropriate \abbreviation calls in the document or enviro= nment.

As for the larger issue of bibliographies, I've started w= orking 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 Handbo= ok of Style, 2nd edition, available at=C2=A0https://github.com/dcpurton/biblatex-sbl/blob/master/test/b= iblatex-sbl-examples.ref.txt.

Like you say, some par= ts are tricky. SBL uses "entry"-style citations by default and do= esn't seem to make use of other common alternatives (such as "auth= oryear"). I can think of some existing alternatives that might get use= d in specific cases (e.g., "author", "title"), but the = recommended=C2=A0shorthand has the form "shortauthor, shorttitle"= (i.e., the last name(s) of the author(s) only, followed by a comma and a s= hortened form of the title as specified in the "shorttitle" field= ). I could make this the sbl style's implementation of the "short&= quot; alternative, since the LaTeX-style bracketed number references are fo= reign to SBL style anyway, but if would be preferable just to introduce ano= ther alternative (something like "authortitle"), then I could als= o try to do that.

For my immediate purposes, I won't need much m= ore than the=C2=A0@book, @article, @inbook, and=C2=A0@incollection=C2=A0ent= ries, so my focus will be on getting those right, but if anyone is interest= ed 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:

=

> -----Urspr=C3=BCngliche 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 bibliograp= hy
>
>
>
> > 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/de= finesynonyms
>
> 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 yo= u.
>
>
> Can=E2=80=99t help with bibliographies, sorry.

SBL is a tricky beast anyway. There were some discussions regarding impleme= nting 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 t= hough.

Denis

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