The keyword = nonacademic test doesn't feel idiomatic

moewew commented 4 years ago

Via https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/551658/35864

In order to have the full date printed in @article entries one has to give nonacademic as keyword. That doesn't quite feel idiomatic to me, keywords are usually only used for bibliography filtering and possibly quick user-defined formatting changes. For a style I'd much prefer entrysubtype.

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[babel=true,german=quotes]{csquotes} 
\usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber,apamaxprtauth=99]{biblatex}

\DeclareFieldFormat{apacase}{#1}

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@article{SpiegelOnline.2013,
  author      = {Johannes Korge},
  shortauthor = {jok},
  date        = {2013-06-09},
  title       = {Obama verteidigt Abhöraktion Prism},
  url         = {http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/gespraeche-mit-merkel-obama-verteidigt-in-berlin-abhoeraktion-prism-a-906638.html},
  urldate     = {2016-07-08},
  journal     = {Spiegel Online},
  keywords    = {nonacademic},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{SpiegelOnline.2013}
\printbibliography 
\end{document}

plk commented 4 years ago

Fixed in DEV - this was a quick hack I think as I didn't have time to look into the dual-use cases of entrysubtype.

moewew commented 4 years ago

Thanks. That looks much nicer.

Do you think it would be worth it to have backwards compatibility for the keywords solution or is this niche enough that biblatex-apa can get away with the change?

plk commented 4 years ago

This was fairly niche - I'll note in the docs and I don't think it will have much of an impact.

plk / biblatex-apa

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