Re: Short forms and abbreviations in bibliography

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

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All right, I think I see what I did wrong; I just needed to enclose the
whole \abbreviation command in an \expanded command as follows:

```
\startsetups btx:sbl:cite:short
  ...
  \btxdoif {shorthand} {

\expanded{\abbreviation[\currentbtxtag]{\btxflush{shorthand}}{\btxflush{title}}}
  }
  ...
\stopsetups
```

It looks like passing the macro \currentbtxtag as the tag for the
abbreviation works fine. And if I redefine the abbreviations synonyms list
as follows, I can use \inshort[\currentbtxtag]:

```
\definesynonyms[abbreviation][abbreviations][\infull][\inshort]
```

I'll add more to the thread if I run into any problems making this more
complex!

Joey

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 12:35 PM Joey McCollum <jmccollum20140511@gmail.com>
wrote:

> (Quick note for anyone following this thread: I've figured out how to
> implement different typesetting rules for list, inline, and short-form
> citations; you can see how I've done this in the publ-imp-sbl.mkvi file in
> the https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl repository.)
>
> I have another question related to abbreviations/synonyms in connection
> with bibliographies. When a bibliographic entry has a "shorthand" field and
> I cite it using \cite[alternative=short], I would like to add its shorthand
> to the abbreviations list, with a longer citation as its "in-full" form. My
> first thought was that I could accomplish this with something like the
> following:
>
> ```
> \startsetups btx:sbl:cite:short
>   ...
>   \btxdoif {shorthand} {
>     \abbreviation[\currentbtxtag]{\btxflush{shorthand}}{\btxflush{title}}
>   }
>   ...
> \stopsetups
> ```
>
> But even if I invoke \placelistofabbreviations with the "criterium=all"
> option, nothing appears in the list.
>
> In some ways, this issue is related to the now-resolved issue "Which way
> to type greek letters in synonym list?" from 2010. The problem is that in
> this case, I have to use a macro even in the first input to \abbreviation
> (in brackets), because I don't know what it is in advance. In addition, if
> the second and third inputs to \abbreviation (in curly braces) are not
> expanded until the list is printed, then they will be empty/undefined at
> the time when they are needed.
>
> I'm not as familiar with how to deal with expansion problems, so I could
> use someone's expertise here. Is there a simple way to define an
> abbreviation using the expanded values of macros as above? And is there a
> way to invoke an abbreviation/synonym at this level of abstraction?
> (Something like \inshort[\currentbtxtag]?)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joey
>
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 6:11 PM Joey McCollum <jmccollum20140511@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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