On 9/16/2021 8:45 PM, Joey McCollum via ntg-context wrote:

Hi,

It's taken a couple weeks, but I nearly have a working bibliographic rendering for SBL style ready. I'm hosting the .lua and .mkvi files I have so far, as well as a test .bib and .tex file, on GitHub at https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl. The look of the rendering seems to be correct for all of the examples, so the last remaining tasks mostly concern some lower-level technical issues.

Because of the way that SBL style renders entries that are contained in other works (e.g., a chapter in a book that is part of a multivolume collection), it seemed natural to accommodate this by allowing entries to have cross-references to other entries. The rendering process can then be handled through recursive subcitations with different alternatives. In general, I handle these subcitations with the \textcite command, so that "higher-level" entries are not added to the list when they are only subcited.

An important guideline that I still have to implement works in the opposite direction: it says that entries in certain categories should not be added to the list, but the books or collections containing them should be. I think I could make this work for the subcitation using the \listcite or \cite command recursively. But is there a way to conditionally handle whether or not to add the entry to the list after I invoke the \cite command, or is this built into the \cite command at a low level? If I had to, I could define an \autocite command that does all of these checks first, but if it's possible to keep the common \cite command instead of forcing users to use a different command, that would be preferable. a few quick remarks (i'll look better into it later)

% Various Lua macros for parsing and conversion \startluacode sblhelpers = sblhelpers or {} i think we should havea namespace for these kind of things in order not to polute the global namespace something publications.btx and then publications.btx.slb = { } this is tricky and will clash: \def\ordinal#1{\ctxlua{sblhelpers.ordinal([==[#1]==])}}% \def\convertdate#1{\ctxlua{sblhelpers.convertdate([==[#1]==])}}% \def\serializelocationpublisher#1#2{\ctxlua{sblhelpers.serializelocationpublisher([==[#1]==],[==[#2]==])}}% \def\serializevolumenumberdatepage#1#2#3#4{\ctxlua{sblhelpers.serializevolumenumberdatepage([==[#1]==],[==[#2]==],[==[#3]==],[==[#4]==])}}% % Define some helper functions for subcitations \let\btxparenttag\empty% the tag of the entry subciting the current one \def\btxprintpubl{yes}% yes/no indicating whether publication information should be specified for the current citation or subcitation \let\btxcurrentsubcitetype\empty% the type of subcitation we're invoking here \def\btxsblordinal is better, but as you're using protection, even better is \def\btx_sbl_ordinal i also wonder about the \clf_btxdirect we need a \btxdirect... (have to think about a name) because one never knows how a lowlevel command evolves (or at least i shoudl somehow make a not that it can't evolve (or make a keyword driven variant) ... idem for \clf_author (btw, no need for these end-of-line % in texdefinitions I'll add string.wordsplitter so that local andsplitter = string.wordsplitter("and") local a = andsplitter("a and b and c") local a = andsplitter("a and b and c") local a = andsplitter("a and b and c") all work as expected i'll add an extended publ-imp-author.mkvi to the distribution, the other ones can come later (including the manual). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------