\citeshorthand error

[Nhapsie]

Biber (2.6 with BibLaTeX 3.5) produces a warning for \citeshorthand "SBL" within the example @conferencepaper{niditch:1994, from biblatex-sbl-test (page 36 of version Jan 11, 2017). There is no "SBL" output in the List of Abbreviation, at least on my end. I'm using the latest master files.

[dcpurton]

I can't reproduce this.

Can you post the output (as in the terminal output, not the PDF) when you run pdflatex on this MWE:

\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=sbl]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-sbl.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{niditch:1994}
\printbiblist{abbreviations}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Don't forget you will need to run pdflatex, biber, pdflatex, biber, pdflatex to get the final output because of the cite within the cite.

[Nhapsie]

Thank you, it worked. As an aside, I'm missing the total range of pages for Niditch in your example on page 36. It affects the use of pagination.

[dcpurton]

Hi @Nhapsie, can I check what you mean here? There is no pages field in the niditch entry, so no total page range is printed. This matches the handbook, and I wouldn't expect a total page range to be given for an unpublished conference paper.

And what do you mean by use of pagination?

[Nhapsie]

Thanks for your reply, all is well. I had to remove pages = ... from my bib file as @conferencepaper does not take pages. Makes sense because it is unpublished, so pages go in the running text. Disregard "pagination"