Re: [NTG-context] Short forms and abbreviations in bibliography

6 Oct 2021

      Interestingly, if I remove the contents of the btx:sbl:inline:shorthand
command and paste them inline as the third argument of \abbreviation, then
it works as expected:

```
\expanded{\abbreviation[\currentbtxtag]{\btxdoif{shorthand}{\doifinsetelse{\btxflush{type}}{plainttitle,
plainshorthand}{\btxflush{shorthand}}{\btxstartstyleandcolor[sbl:\s!list:title:\currentbtxcategory]\btxusecommand[sbl:\s!list:title:\currentbtxcategory]{\btxflush{shorthand}}\btxstopstyleandcolor}}}{\textcite[alternative=listsubcite,lefttext=,righttext=][\currentbtxtag]}}
```

But obviously, this is much less readable. So if there is a more concise
solution that applies expansion control to
\texdefinition{btx:sbl:inline:shorthand}, I'd love to know it!

Thanks!

Joey

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 3:05 PM Joey McCollum 
wrote:
...
Okay, I had a follow-up question sooner than I thought! Enclosing the
\abbreviation command doesn't quite work when I want to typeset the
abbreviated form with a \texdefinition, as follows:
```
\texdefinition{btx:sbl:doifownfield} {shorthand} {
\expanded{\abbreviation[\currentbtxtag]{\texdefinition{btx:sbl:inline:shorthand}}{\textcite[alternative=listsubcite,lefttext=,righttext=][\currentbtxtag]}}
}
```
Thankfully, everything else gets rendered as expected. But why is the
\texdefinition not expanding? If it helps, I've included it below:
```
\starttexdefinition btx:sbl:inline:shorthand
  \btxdoif {shorthand} {
    % If the entry is of type plaintitle or plainshorthand, then do not
apply formatting to its shorthand
    \doifinsetelse{\btxflush{type}}{plainttitle, plainshorthand} {
      \btxflush{shorthand}
    } {
      \btxstartstyleandcolor[sbl:\s!list:title:\currentbtxcategory]
        \btxusecommand[sbl:\s!list:title:\currentbtxcategory]{
          \btxflush{shorthand}% set the shorthand according to the current
category
        }
      \btxstopstyleandcolor
    }
    \btxcomma
  }
\stoptexdefinition
```
Do I have to apply expansion control somewhere else or in some other way?
Joey
On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 2:35 PM Joey McCollum 
wrote:
...
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-examp...
.
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  Im Auftrag von
Henning
> Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Gesendet: Samstag, 7. August 2021 22:40
> An: mailing list for ConTeXt users 
> Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm 
> 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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