Actually, since some categories (such as @review and @suppbook from
biblatex) do not necessarily have titles of their own, it may be best to
include a few other fields in the sort sequence to accommodate them. The
following sequence may be better:
```
publications.sortmethods.authortitle = {
sequence = {
{ field = "author", default = "", unknown = "" },
{ field = "title", default = "", unknown = "" },
{ field = "booktitle", default = "", unknown = "" }, --
if this is an untitled section (e.g., introduction, foreword, preface) of a
book or a review of a book
{ field = "maintitle", default = "", unknown = "" }, --
if this is an untitled section or volume in a multivolume collection
{ field = "volume", default = "", unknown = "" },
{ field = "part", default = "", unknown = "" },
{ field = "date", default = "9998-13-32", unknown =
"9999-14-33" }, -- some specifications allow date instead of year, month,
day
{ field = "year", default = "9998", unknown = "9999" },
{ field = "month", default = "13", unknown = "14" },
{ field = "day", default = "32", unknown = "33" },
{ field = "index", default = "", unknown = "" },
},
}
```
It is also worth noting that in order for the volume field to sort
properly, its values will have to be padded with leading zeroes; otherwise,
an entry with volume = {2} will be sorted after one with volume = {10}. To
accommodate this, specifications would need to remove the leading zeroes
when they typeset volume and part numbers.
Joey
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 2:02 PM Joey McCollum <jmccollum20140...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had to make another update to the general publications support code
> in order to implement a feature of the SBL rendering. Denis Maier has
> opened some issues on the context-sbl GitHub repo (
> https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl) to offer some helpful
> suggestions about needed features and bug fixes. One issue was that SBL
> should order list entries by author and title. Thankfully, there is already
> an authordate sortmethod defined in publ-aut.lua (probably to support the
> Chicago rendering), so I was able to use it as a template for the
> following authortitle sort sequence:
>
> ```
> publications.sortmethods.authortitle = {
> sequence = {
> { field = "author", default = "", unknown = "" },
> { field = "title", default = "", unknown = "" },
> { field = "date", default = "9998-13-32", unknown =
> "9999-14-33" }, -- some specifications allow date instead of year, month,
> day
> { field = "year", default = "9998", unknown = "9999" },
> { field = "month", default = "13", unknown = "14" },
> { field = "day", default = "32", unknown = "33" },
> { field = "index", default = "", unknown = "" },
> },
> }
> ```
>
> I added this to publ-aut.lua because publications.sortmethods.authoryear
> is defined in that file, but if another location is more appropriate, then
> feel free to let me know, and I can move it! Otherwise, if this looks okay
> to include in a future update, then feel free to incorporate it!
>
> Joey
>
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