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On 10/7/2021 6:38 AM, Joey McCollum via ntg-context wrote:
A concise solution that I found would work was to define a "shorthand" citation alternative and just print the shorthand with that:
``` % Shorthand citation setup \startsetups btx:sbl:cite:shorthand \begingroup \def\currentbtxcategory{\btxfield{category}} \texdefinition{btx:sbl:inline:shorthand} \endgroup \removeunwantedspaces \removepunctuation \stopsetups
...
\expanded{\abbreviation[\currentbtxtag]{\textcite[alternative=shorthand,lefttext=,righttext=][\currentbtxtag]}{\textcite[alternative=listsubcite,lefttext=,righttext=][\currentbtxtag]}} ```
Again, this works, although I'm still not sure why invoking \texdefinition{btx:sbl:inline:shorthand} directly doesn't. I leave it to Alan to comment on this as he's the bib guru
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