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

22 Aug 2021

      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 
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:
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Von: ntg-context  Im Auftrag von Henning
Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Gesendet: Samstag, 7. August 2021 22:40
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Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm 
Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Short forms and abbreviations in bibliography
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Am 07.08.2021 um 21:53 schrieb Joey McCollum via ntg-context :
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
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Hraban
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